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DOPEY PM Starmer AXES Apprenticeships -Only The Rich Can Become Doctors
DOPEY PM Starmer CUTS Doctor Apprenticeships For Poor & Underprivileged Students
Starmer Has Pulled Funding For Apprenticeships at Masters Level
-- Made More Accessible To The Wealthy
AP 27 DEC 2024
Labour has scrapped a doctor apprenticeship scheme that helps underprivileged students train without taking on debt...
Medical doctor apprenticeships were launched under the previous Conservative government in 2023 to help make the profession more accessible, more diverse and more representative of local communities
As well as having to pay no tuition fees, apprentices were also paid a salary that rose from ?14,606 in their first year to ?22,038 in their final year, equating to almost ?94,000 across their five years of study.
To earn their salary, apprentices were expected to work up to 15 weeks per year on wards in their local NHS trust alongside their study that took place with undergraduate students at university.
But The Telegraph understands universities were told last month the scheme is to be ?paused in perpetuity? and to cancel plans to recruit new apprentices for next September.
It comes after Sir Keir Starmer announced his government would pull funding for all apprenticeships at a masters-level at the Labour party conference in September.
Under Conservative plans, the scheme was to be expanded to 200 apprenticeships in its second year with 2,000 offered by 2031-32.
There were concerns when the scheme was announced last year that it could create a ?two-tier system? with apprentice degrees seen as lesser
The British Medical Association questioned whether a programme could be created that balanced the needs of the apprenticeship and the same high standards of training experienced by traditional medical students
However NHS bosses maintained apprentices would have to pass the same exams as other medical students and meet all other criteria to qualify as a doctor as set out by the General Medical Council.
The first cohort of apprentices began in September with approximately 20 students accepted at both Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and the University of Plymouth....
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