STEP reaches 300 in opening year

A total of 300 optometry undergraduates from eight UK universities and representing half of all pre-registration students enrolled in J&J’s Success Through Education Program (STEP) last year.

The second year of the programme would take on students from Ulster University and the University of Bradford’s BSc Career Progression course for dispensing opticians for the first time, a company statement confirmed.

A group of participants from the current programme had also been recruited to help shape future development.

Launched in January 2015, STEP vowed to provide ‘continuous support for the next generation of eye care professionals, from their penultimate year at university through to qualified practice’.