Why should only Nurses get bursaries?

Most Nurses training in England will come out of uni with £0 in debt.

They also get £1000 extra loaned than other students, and will earn around £23,038 when they become Registered Nurses after uni.

But this does beg the question – why shouldn’t Doctors and Teachers get their courses paid for too?

Lots of people would argue that doctors will reap the benefits after university when they can earn huge amounts of money by working their way up through their profession, which isn’t the case for most nurses.

But teachers? They’re working for the government, their professions are also seriously underfunded, they get very little pay for attempting to educate the next generation and they also have to spend three years at university. So where’s their bursary to help them through? They also have long placements which make it hard for them to get a job while at university, and they need longer housing contracts to make sure they have somewhere to live while they are on these placements. It is a very similar situation to nurses, so why are teachers missing out?

Not to mention that nurses in training can actually apply to do “agency nursing” in their second year which can pay up to £19.50 per hour, I think we’d all agree that that’s more than what most students can get from working as barman in Fuzz.

When other students are struggling to afford milk, I think it’s unfair that others don’t get the same opportunity.

The bottom line is, we’re all suffering through university life trying to make sure that we can actually afford to heat the house while still affording to eat. The bursary for nurses values their profession over others like teachers, doctors, social workers, etc. It’s not fair.

My argument isn’t saying nurses bursaries should be scrapped, it’s saying that if one public sector profession is being rewarded then they all should be. No one working in the public sector has it good, and they should all be rewarded with a few extra dollar while at university.