{"id":18397,"date":"2019-07-11T15:51:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T15:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=18397"},"modified":"2019-07-11T15:51:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T15:51:13","slug":"nurse-training-applications-rise-ucas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/nurse-training-applications-rise-ucas\/","title":{"rendered":"Slight rise in applications for nurse training according to UCAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A recent <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucas.com\/file\/243561\/download?token=uRNMgKL3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">report<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> released by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS), details that <strong>there is a slight rise in applications or nurse training compared to 2018.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While this increase is an encouraging trend, <strong>there is a significant decrease in applications compared to 2016, when the state stopped offering a bursary used to cover all training costs.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Three years ago, the number of applicants to achieve this professional qualification were more than fifty thousand (51,830). In comparison, <strong>the number of applicants during the latest admission round were down by almost thirty percent (30%) to about thirty-seven thousand (36,810).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nurse training crisis<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ever since <strong>the British government decided to deprive aspiring nurses of the opportunity to take a bursary for their education<\/strong>, the number of applications has been in decline.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another cause for concern about higher education was recently <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/uk-universities-increased-good-grades\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">revealed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as it turns out the credibility of universities across the UK is dropping.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This situation has become a reason for <strong>serious concern among the Ministry of Health, as the fewer students enter nursing courses, the fewer nurses are going to come to the health system.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>The NHS has recently reported that there are about forty thousand open positions for nurses<\/strong>, which cannot be filled. This puts additional pressure on experienced professionals, as the shortage in employees means they have to work longer hours. Because of the harsh work environment, <strong>many of the already employed nurses are also thinking of quitting.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thus, ever since the axing of the bursary, a crisis has started forming, and the future of hospitals is under threat, as trained employees in the sector are rapidly decreasing in numbers.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent report released by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS), details that there is a slight rise in applications or nurse training compared to 2018.\u00a0 While this increase is an encouraging trend, there is a significant decrease in applications compared to 2016, when the state stopped offering a bursary used to cover all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":18398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,26],"tags":[1014,1015,1475],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}