Omen writes

As the latest group of successful A level students are congratulated on achieving a place in an optometry department one wonders whether or not they will think that their expectations have been fulfilled when they graduate.

Although there is an acknowledged oversupply of graduates, their hopes of finding a pre-registration post are better than expected. Two things are certain thanks to the work of the GOC and the College their chances of passing the final assessment at the first attempt have increased significantly, and, less happily, their salary expectations are considerably less than those of their colleagues several years ago.