High-cost courses such as dentistry will receive extra funding to help to cope with the additional studentsThousands of extra medical, dentistry and science students will start at university this autumn after a cap on places was lifted and extra funding announced. Michelle Donelan, the universities minister, said that students should be guaranteed places at their first-choice university, either this year or next, if they had been made an offer. She also announced that universities would be free to recruit as many medical students as they wanted. Universities welcomed the announcement but some could struggle to create more spaces at short notice because of practical constraints. Millions of pounds could be spent on the extra places — it costs about £175,000 for a student to complete a five-year medical degree, of which

Source: The Times August 20, 2020 16:04 UTC