<h1>University and Pharma Company Launch 2025-26 Self-Directed Teams Bridge Course to Boost Employees' Scientific Skills and Employability</h1> A university signed a Memorandum of Understanding with a leading pharmaceutical company to run a 2025-26 bridge course for the company's employees, organized by the university's chemistry department. The co-designed Self-Directed Teams (SDT) Bridge Course will deliver industry-relevant modules, lectures, laboratory sessions, assessments, and hands-on training to enhance trainees' scientific knowledge, practical skills, employability, and problem-solving ability. University and company leaders described the collaboration as strengthening industry-academia ties; it is the university's second major partnership in the pharmaceutical sector aimed at longer-term workforce development.