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Students and pre-regs

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Student registration renewal deadline approaches

Students and pre-regs

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Three people stand on stage in formal attire. In the centre, Catherine holds a certificate for the EFYE Team award

Award win for University of Manchester optometry induction experience

Students and pre-regs

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A young woman in an optician’s shop smiles as she reaches toward a wall display of glasses frames, while another woman stands slightly out of focus nearby, watching. Bright overhead lighting and a clean, modern interior create a welcoming retail environment

Pre-reg focus

Looking ahead to the OSCEs as a pre-reg optometrist

Students and pre-regs

05 Jun 2 mins

Komal takes a selfie from a high angle of the clinic room in practice. She wears a long sleeve black blouse with a patterned white skirt. Behind her is the Snellen chart and testing equipment

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Patients at the heart

Students and pre-regs

22 May 3 mins

An optometrist wearing an NHS lanyard, Zak Saleem, examines a patient’s eyes using a slit lamp microscope in a clinical setting

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“I am finding this stage both rewarding and challenging”

Students and pre-regs

15 May 2 mins

Deepali Poojara sitting at a desk smiling at the camera

Deepali Poojara: “You never know who’s going to come through the door”

Students and pre-regs

13 May

AOP student reps for 2025-2026 standing in a group in the AOP offices

AOP opens student rep applications

Students and pre-regs

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A street-side view of the outside of Manchester’s optometry building. The building has a geometric white design on the surface, highlighting the windows. A glass fronted section is in the centre

Optometry Education Conference to bring optometrists, researchers, and educators together

Students and pre-regs

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Heer is photographed in a clinical setting holding up a tool and smiling

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Young female optometrist smiling as she looks through a slit lamp microscope to examine a male patient’s eyes in a softly lit clinic room, with a blurred owl picture on the wall in the background

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Adapting to technology as an optometry pre-reg

Students and pre-regs

31 Mar 4 mins

Sam is photographed in a university office, holding her textbook Introduction to Visual Optics, up to the camera and grinning behind it

Visual optics textbook receives excellence award

Students and pre-regs

26 Mar

Young female optometrist performs an eye exam on a female patient inside an optometry practice

Seven insights on CLiP from the College of Optometrists

Students and pre-regs

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An optometrist wearing an NHS lanyard, Zak Saleem, examines a patient’s eyes using a slit lamp microscope in a clinical setting, with a blue light shining into the patient’s eye as she rests her chin on the support

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“Pre-reg has highlighted how much learning happens on the job”

Students and pre-regs

04 Mar 2 mins

Young woman measuring glass on eyewear for a senior patient looking at camera

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Students and pre-regs

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Students and pre-regs

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A woman with long brown hair stands in an eye examination room beside a slit lamp machine. She is smiling softly and wearing a white top with a dark cardigan. An eye chart is visible on the wall behind her, along with other optometry equipment, a computer workstation, and a bottle of hand sanitizer on the table

Pre-reg focus

“I feel much more equipped to deal with visually impaired patients”

Students and pre-regs

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University of Leicester begins making provisional offers to future optometry students

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Students and pre-regs

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De Montfort University seeking GOC approval for new optometry degree

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A smiling woman sits in an eye-exam room beside a slit-lamp microscope, holding one of the instrument controls. She wears a dark cardigan and white top, and the clinical room has posters and equipment in the background

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