In May Bristol University awarded 50 dentists with their Diplomas in Postgraduate Dental Studies, bringing the number of graduands to over 800 in the past 17 years and making the diploma the most popular postgraduate programme in the UK.

The Diploma in Postgraduate Dental Studies is a distance learning course for which there is a choice of 13 units such as periodontology, dental care for older people and business management skills. Students must complete three units successfully within five years to achieve the Diploma.