Tuition fees are to be increased.

Lydie45

When my husband was in hospital a older nurse was doing some procedure on him and told us that after that day she would no longer be able to do it as she ‘wasn’t qualified’ to do this as she did not have a degree and needed to get one. She told us she wouldn’t bother and was leaving. An excellent nurse lost to the profession.

When i was a student, the teacher whose class I was in for teaching practice had the same issue. Yes, she was good at her job, but no, she didn’t have a degree or a PGCE. So she had the choice of getting one or leaving.

Sarnia

Allira

Freya5

Indigo8

I agree Allira. We need fewer degree courses too.
For instance why do nursing and fine art have to be a degree courses?

If you don't agree with degree courses,perhaps look up to see why it's needed and what is involved.

We have nurses in the family, SRN, one with a degree and another with a Masters.

I agree that some nursing is very technical these days but disagree that all nurses need a degree.

The midwives and nurses I worked with would agree with you. They thought there was too much time spent in university and not enough working on the wards and being hands on with a qualified member of the nursing staff.

Nursing 2000 seemed to be a good initiative, a combination of a university course and hands-on experience; I'm not sure why it was abandoned.