The School of Pharmacy in Trinity College Dublin - Ireland's only pharmacy school - will increase its student intake by 40 per cent by the year 2000. The expansion is possible as a result of the extended facilities now available in its new premises in the Panoz Institute on the TCD campus. Apart from the 280 BSc (Pharm) students, the school will have two postgraduate courses in pharmaceutical analysis and pharmaceutical technology.

The 5,400-square-metre Panoz Institute houses lecture theatres, computer rooms and TCD's electron-microscope unit. The director of the school, Dr Des Corrigan, says it represents the changing role of pharmacists in Ireland, who are involved in international research and development in collaboration with industry, hospitals and community pharmacists, which is part-funded by the EU.