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New medical schools: the story so far

HEPI

In 2016, the then Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, promised that medical schools in England would be allowed to offer up to 1,500 extra training places a year with a view to making the NHS self-sufficient in doctors by 2025. Yet strict caps remain on the number of medical students that can be recruited. Number caps.

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The 2024 Insight Into Diversity Inspiring Programs in STEM Award

Insight Into Diversity

This collaboration even extends to incorporating resources like drone technology for real-time data gathering, enriching the teaching material. KCU faculty members joined the program that includes mentorship, case presentations, curriculum information, how to take a medical history, a suture clinic, and identity workshops.

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Deep Internationalization & Infrastructure

GlobalHigherEd

Over the last several years, it has been interesting to see the development of some new and relatively deep collaborative models of institutional (or ‘commercial,’ using GATS parlance) presence in territories outside of universities’ main campuses. While there are 250+ branch campuses around the world, including somewhat similar models (e.g.,

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Morehouse School of Medicine Looks to Disrupt Health Inequities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Valerie Montgomery Rice and other experts are excited about the $2 million donation from the Croel Family Foundation for the development of the David Satcher Global Health Equity Institute at the school. “As As a medical school, our first priority is to train physicians, researchers, and other healthcare professionals.

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Harvard Biological Engineering Institute Receives $350M Gift

Inside Higher Ed

“That aspiration, expressed passionately and persistently by Hansjörg Wyss, has yielded a unique model of collaborative and cross-disciplinary research, as well as disruptive innovations that are improving and savings lives.” Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?:

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Pioneers discuss the challenges facing computer science

Inside Higher Ed

The forum is an intimate, invitation-only gathering modeled after its scientific partner, the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings held each July in Lindau, Switzerland. “It’s kind of like in medical school when they talk about the ‘half-life of knowledge.’ Departments Spread Too Thin.

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President’s corner: How Eli Capilouto inspired a spate of gracious donations

University Business

Thanks to a partnership with Apple, the university can provide its learners with the company’s devices to ensure they get well-equipped for a modern, technologically driven learning landscape. The initiative uses a data-informed analytics model to identify students with unmet financial needs and match them with scholarships.