Judging courses by graduate earnings will backfire,vice-chancellors warnUniversities have hit out at government plans to rank their academic teaching according to how much their graduates earn. Vice-chancellors warn they may be forced to prick vital degrees including nursing, social work and policing, or because of these courses’ lower earnings potential.
Nursing academics say they are still “reeling from the significant drop in applications since the government replaced nursing bursaries with loans. They are urging ministers to contemplate hard approximately the impact of their education policies on the future workforce in NHS hospitals.
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Source: guardian.co.uk