Nursing is well on its way to setting minimum standards for a degree level nursing programme and justifiably so, given the complexities of care and the demands the public rightly make in insisting on high quality, safe and effective care.

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Trainees wishing to follow the postgraduate teacher training programme must have a degree, but those who do not, have to go on an undergraduate teacher training courses.

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Two years ago it started to admit 120 of the best students from local state schools annually to a two-year catch-up programme, with progression to degree courses for those who do well.

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Before the war he had dropped out of college, but he went back to university and collected his bachelor's degree, did some post-graduate work and ended up running a mental health programme at Florida State University.

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The programme aims to send 200 students a year to take a year-long master's degree at Tsinghua - in subjects including public policy, international relations, economics and business, and engineering - from 2016.

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