british students banned from doing medicine at uni...

by Guest Wed Sep 23, 2015 12:18 pm

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/607283/NHS-medicine-University-of-Central-Lancashire-British-students-hospital-crisis-health

ONLY foreigners will be allowed to study medicine at a British university that has banned home students – amid a staffing crisis in NHS hospitals.

by Guest Wed Sep 23, 2015 4:05 pm

Straight-A students are being turned away from medicine degrees at British universities due to ‘bonkers’ government quotas, health experts have warned.
The news comes as the NHS recruits foreign doctors in record numbers, many of whom have ‘little or no knowledge of British culture’.
Quotas mean that top students are forced to study medicine abroad – and fund their own education – or choose another degree.
For 2013-2014, English universities were allowed to recruit just 6,071 medicine students, even though the General Medical Council registers 13,000 doctors each year and the NHS struggles to recruit enough staff.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2401997/Straight-A-students-forced-abroad-study-medicine-NHS-recruits-record-foreign-doctors.html#ixzz3mZf9suGJ
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Government policy

Same with nurses, 100s of 1000s apply

80,000 UK students are told they can't train as a nurse: Thousands can't get on courses despite four in five new NHS workers being foreign

Nurses in their 40s who left to start families can't find jobs to return to
It has emerged that it costs NHS £70,000 to train a nurse for three years
But for the same amount it can hire three qualified foreigners
Hospitals recruited almost 6,000 overseas nurses last year
Estimated there are 100,000 applicants a year for 20,000 training places in
Government has cut number of places, from 20,829 in 2009/10 to 17,219 in 2012/13 – although it rose last year to 19,206

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2878312/80-000-UK-students-told-t-train-nurse-Thousands-t-courses-despite-four-five-new-NHS-workers-foreign.html#ixzz3mZfxhWcm
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Government policy - take it up with them.

by Guest Wed Sep 23, 2015 7:37 pm

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/higher/university-of-central-lancashire-launches-medical-degree-that-is-only-open-to-overseas-students-10513341.html

Hospitals may be struggling to overcome immigration laws to recruit new nurses, but for the university sector it is a different story.

In what is thought to be a first, a UK university has launched a medical degree that is open only to overseas students. The University of Central Lancashire said that it was unable to invite British students to apply because of national limits on the numbers allowed to study medicine.

However, 38 international students from outside the EU will take up a place, paying £36,500 a year.

The university said it would like to recruit UK students and would be applying to do so if placements became available. The overseas students will self-fund their course at the university in Preston. During their training they will work closely with local NHS hospitals.

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