UK's first private medical school will open in September 2008

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UK's first private medical school will open in September 2008

Rebecca Coombes

London

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Britain's first private medical school will take students fromnext September, amid doubts that all of its graduates will beable to get jobs in the NHS.

The school, which will be based at the University of Buckingham,an independent university, will open with a modest intake of25 postgraduate students. It will train already qualified doctorsand will award a clinical MD.

The school's board, whose members include Luke Johnson, theformer chairman of the Pizza Express chain of restaurants andcurrent chairman of Channel 4 television, is involved in raising£12m ( ${euro}$ 17m; $25m) to launch a second school in 2009 forgraduates who want to train as doctors on a fast track, fouryear programme. The founders expect candidates to be mainlymature entrants or graduates from overseas.

Neither school will receive any government funding, survivinglargely on students' fees and private investment. The foundingdean, Karol . . . [Full text of this article]

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