Alcon Scholarship offers a different school of thought

When Amar-Kaash Gandecha answered an ad for a new educational programme for recently qualified optometrists he didn’t know quite what to expect. Neither did the 22 other practitioners who enrolled for the inaugural year of the Alcon Scholarship. But what he and his fellow Scholars have discovered over the past year has brought a new perspective to their professional lives. ‘It’s opened my eyes to what else there is in the profession and really sparked an interest in my job,’ says Gandecha.

Introduced by Alcon Vision Care in January 2014 under the Academy for Eye Care Excellence banner, the two-year Alcon Scholarship is open to any optometrist currently practising in the UK or Ireland who has been qualified for 2-5 years.