It goes something like this, “Now that I’m out of a job, I might as well go back to school,” according to Jay Walls, a representative of the University of North Texas graduate school.

The turnout Wednesday for the Graduate & Professional School Fair held on the campus of Abilene Christian University bore out that thinking.

A steady flow of prospects began circulating through the exhibit room shortly after the fair started. Walls wasn’t surprised.

“Enrollment has gone up because of the economy,” he said. “Schools tend to do better when the economy is down.”

Wednesday’s fair was sponsored by the West Central Texas Career Consortium, which consists of eight local colleges and universities and Dyess Air Force Base.

Ben Klein, who is on schedule to receive a master’s degree in clinical psychology from ACU in May, credited the economy with forcing him to make some decisions. Klein browsed the tables set up by about 25 institutions, picking up literature and learning about their doctoral programs.

“If more jobs were out there and more money was out there, I might just stop with my master’s,” Klein said.

But because of limited well-paying positions for clinical psychologists with only a master’s degree, Klein decided to check out doctoral programs.

And, he is looking into possibly joining the military as a means of paying for the degree. At least two branches of the service — Army and Air Force — offer scholarships for doctoral degrees with a military commitment after graduation, Klein said.

Deciding to go directly into a doctoral program, rather than working first, and getting the military to pay for it is a direct result of a slumping economy, Klein said.

Jace Jones, who was manning a table for the University of North Texas School of Public Health, faced the same situation as Klein. He has a master’s degree in health policy and management, but a doctorate is needed for higher-paying jobs.

So, Jones decided to increase his value by working on a doctorate. He would have started work with the master’s degree if good jobs had been available.

“There just weren’t that many out there,” he said.

On the flip side, the recruiting is picking up.

“It’s been kind of good for graduate schools,” he said.

Another man with an easy job Wednesday was Make Nall, who represented the Texas Tech University School of Pharmacy in Abilene.

The school has enrolled 40 students each year since opening, with a current enrollment of 120. Next year’s 40 will bring the school to its maximum enrollment. Even without a bad economy, the pharmacy schools gets more applicants than it can handle, Nall said.

Last year, between 600 and 700 people applied. But the economic downturn has brought some unusual applicants such as a chiropractor and a few physicians. The physicians are applying from rural areas, Nall said, because small clinics are hiring more physician’s assistants than doctors. Physicians leaving those clinics are enrolling in pharmacy schools because the entry level pay for a pharmacist can be as high as $140,000 a year, Nall said.

Another recruiter not having any trouble Wednesday was Mark Cortez, field representative for Walden University, an accredited online institution of higher learning. The flexibility offered by an online education draws working people and other nontraditional students, Cortez said. The poor economy just adds to the mix.

“It’s been big,” Cortez said. “People have been having a hard time finding a job.”

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Fifty jobs are under threat at a private hospital in Ballykelly, County Londonderry.

The North West Independent Hospital said they had no alternative but to consider redundancies and restructuring.

In a statement the hospital said: “There has been a considerable downturn in work due to the reduction in referrals from the NHS Trusts.”

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The hospital has said they are currently consulting with elected representatives and that discussions around the redundancy proposals are ongoing.

The hospital, which has 36 beds, offers both in-patient and out-patient facilities and have three operating theatres, X-Ray department, pharmacy and physiotherapy services.

SDLP East Derry MLA John Dallat has said that the Assembly must take action to prevent further job losses in the North-West.

He said that the East Derry area has been devastated by job losses: “The cutback in work going to the Ballykelly Clinic is a double whammy. It will result in job losses and, of course, mean that people on the hospital waiting lists will have to wait longer.”

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“This new agreement means that not one pharmacy worker will lose her or his job,” Cinnamon Amenes, an SEIU worker Kaiser’s Vallejo medical center who served on the SEIU-UHW bargaining team, said in SEIU’s Sept. 29 statement. Kaiser, meanwhile, explained late Tuesday that it had agreed to the deal, which still requires ratification by union members, to gain more flexibility in how it assigns jobs and shifts to the affected Northern California pharmacy workers.

The Service Employees International Union’s Oakland-based United Healthcare Workers West unit said Tuesday it has reached a compromise agreement with Kaiser Permanente that will preserve 150 pharmacy jobs in Northern California that had been targeted for layoffs.

The union, which represents 150,000 hospital and other health care workers in the western United States, said a 15-member SEIU-UHW bargaining team reached an agreement with Kaiser last week that requires management and the union to agree jointly on any changes in how 1,100 SEIU pharmacy workers in Northern California are deployed.

Management also agreed to withdraw the 150 layoff notices it had sent to some of those workers, the union said, noting that the agreement will now be put to a ratification vote among the affected members.

In a statement late Tuesday, Kaiser said the agreement with SEIU, which involves pharmacy technicians and clerks, illustrates “exactly the kind of flexibility Kaiser Permanente needs.”

Henry Diaz, Kaiser’s director of employee and labor relations for Northern California, said it reached out to the union several weeks ago to find a compromise under which Kaiser could place the pharmacy technicians and clerks where they’re needed most, “by re-balancing schedules, shifts, and locations, reducing overtime, and flexing our staffing … to meet the seasonal demands of pharmacy operations.”

Kaiser confirmed in mid-August it would be cutting roughly 1,200 union jobs as it continued to struggle with enrollment losses and the tough economic environment. At the same time, Kaiser also confirmed published reports that another 650 jobs would be cut in Southern California.

SEIU said Sept. 29 that the new pharmacy agreement came after its members picketed Kaiser facilities statewide, protesting the Oakland-based health giant’s plans to slash more than 1,300 jobs in the Golden State.

UHW leaders say that more than 5,000 union members have participated in 14 pickets lines in the statewide campaign, and that additional protests are taking place this week: Tuesday in Orange County, Wednesday in Sacramento, and three sites on Thursday — Santa Rosa, Fresno and a second Orange County location.

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Under the terms of the proposals, two existing GP surgeries would combine, setting up a new premises complete with a pharmacy attached, the Worcester Standard reports.

New pharmacy jobs may become available in Worcestershire if plans for the creation of a medical centre get the green light.

A planning application has been submitted to the local council.

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In addition, a business case has been put forward to NHS Worcestershire, which runs a number of medical centres, including Kidderminster Hospital, Worcestershire Royal Hospital and the Princess of Wales Community Hospital.

Dr Charlie Harris, a GP from one of the surgeries involved, said the process of finding a suitable location has taken over three years.

Meanwhile, fellow medical professional Dr Kelvin Laidlaw added: “We hope that if we secure funding for this new medical centre it will enable us to offer our patients a greater range of up to date medical services.”

Written by Mathew Horton

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“In the past, these certificate programs have been very successful, drawing community members from throughout Metro Detroit,” said Joan Stephens, director of Madonna’s Continuing Education program. “The majority of those enrolling are laid-off workers, stay-at-home mothers returning to the workforce, and people looking to switch careers.”

The fall schedule for Madonna University’s medical certificate programs is as follows:

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Sunshine in Ohio isn’t optimal for solar panels, but a fledgling company called GreenField Solar Corp. had a bright idea — an array of aluminum mirrors that focus light onto extremely small and efficient solar cells.

Last year, the first of the 18-foot solar arrays was installed at NASA Glenn Research Center, and 10 of the devices are being installed in Mentor to help power its senior center.

GreenField Solar and a second company, Immediate Pharmaceutical Services Inc. in Avon Lake, plan to each create 200 jobs in the next 16 years thanks to performance tax credits from the state that were approved on Monday.

The more jobs they create, the more commercial activities taxes they will avoid, according to Robert Grevey, spokesman for the Ohio Tax Credit Authority. If they don’t keep their promises, the taxpayer isn’t out any money, Grevey said.

“It’s a performance-based incentive to defray the cost of doing business,” Grevey said.

GreenField plans to put its headquarters in the old Bayer Diagnostic building in Oberlin and expand its fledgling manufacturing facility on Root Road in North Ridgeville, said Glenn Hasman, chief financial officer.

“It concentrates the sun’s light,” Hasman said of the concentrating photovoltaic system. “We think this is very unique.”

Jim Latham, operations director, said each device costs about $10,000 and produces 1,500 watts — about enough to power half a house in Ohio. In Phoenix, where the sun’s rays pack a bigger punch, one would be enough to power a house, although the devices are not being marketed for residential use.

In time, Latham said the company hopes to sell each solar array for under $5,000 with a target price of $3 a watt — less than half the price per watt of conventional solar panels.

GreenField was awarded two 60 percent job creation tax credits, each for eight-year terms, in support of the company’s projects in Oberlin and North Ridgeville, according to the tax authority.

The value of the tax credits are estimated at a combined $850,000 over the term of the agreements, and the company would be required to maintain operations at the project sites for 16 years.

Greenfield developed and has begun manufacturing concentrating photovoltaic systems, which reduce costs associated with photovoltaic power. Its combined $9.8 million projects are expected to create 200 positions and retain three jobs.

Oberlin City Manager Eric Norenberg and North Ridgeville Mayor Dave Gillock were bullish on GreenField’s plans.

“We’re thrilled,” Norenberg said. “This says a lot about the community’s commitment to sustainability and renewable energy.”

Gillock called the tax credits awarded to GreenField “terrific” and described the company’s solar device as “a metal-tubed cactus with mirrors.”

Gillock said there’s plenty of room for growth at GreenField’s manufacturing facility on Root Road near Dreco Inc.

North Ridgeville obtained a state roadway grant for up to $400,000 to pay 50 percent of the cost of building a concrete roadway with storm sewers and sidewalks to the GreenField site, he said.

Meanwhile, Immediate Pharmaceutical Services was awarded a 50 percent job creation tax credit for an eight-year term in support of the company’s facility in Avon Lake, according to the state.

The value of the tax credit is estimated at $1 million over the term, and the company would be required to maintain operations at the project site for 16 years, according to the state.

Immediate Pharmaceutical Services operates a prescription mail service center and will provide Catalyst Health Solutions’ clients with an in-house mail service option. The $4.2 million project is expected to create 200 positions and retain 90 jobs.

Tom Garvey, the company’s president, did not return phone calls Tuesday seeking comment.

The projects were approved at the monthly meeting Monday of the Ohio Tax Credit Authority, a five-member independent board consisting of tax and economic development professionals that review and approve applications for state tax credit assistance.

Contact Cindy Leise at 329-7245 or cleise@chroniclet.com.

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Flame Health Pharmacy Jobs – Pharmacist Job – Folkestone, Kent

Flame Health’s Pharmacy division are currently recruiting for a Pharmacist in Kent. Our client is a national leader within the food sector and operates over 2000 stores across the UK, Ireland, Central Europe and Asia. They are currently expanding their existing pharmacy operation within the UK and are looking for Pharmacists who want to develop themselves and the business, are passionate about providing excellent patient care and who are looking for a challenge within the sector of community pharmacy.

Your role within the operation will be diverse and will be based around providing support to the pharmacy manager whilst leading and motivating the team and improving their skill set so that they are able to deliver excellent patient care and achieve the financial targets as agreed with the pharmacy operations team. You will also be responsible for ensuring effective working relationships are developed with the Primary Care Organisations (PCO) and surgeries within the local area and ensuring that all services within the company pharmacy agenda that are commissioned by the PCO are delivered to a high standard.

As a pharmacist within this leading organisation, you will also be visible to patients and ensuring that they receive advice with prescriptions and medicines in addition to conducting face to face consultations where appropriate.

In return you will receive outstanding benefits, training and development including the largest amount of time off for CPD within the market and the opportunity to develop your career in the larger pharmacy operation or within the global retail arm.

For more information, please contact Flame Health on 0800 085 0858 or email careers@flamehealth.com

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