Anglia Ruskin University’s Ophthalmic Dispensing (FdSc) foundation degree has become the first distance learning course to receive full accreditation status from the General Optical Council.
The part-time, three-year course, aimed at those who are already working in an optical practice, enables graduates to register as dispensing opticians without the need for additional external examinations.
Anglia Ruskin’s BOptom (Hons) Optometry and BSc (Hons) Ophthalmic Dispensing degrees already have GOC accreditation.
Julie Hughes FBDO, course leader for Ophthalmic Dispensing (FdSc), said: ‘Since obtaining “provisional approval” as a scheme provider from the GOC, our work-based course has had in excess of 150 graduates register with the GOC as dispensing opticians.
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