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Editorial
Editorial debate on the future of nurse education
In a recent issue of the International Nursing Studies I made a case for nursing to be a graduate profession (Norman, 2014). My editorial was in a response to some comments made by the UK Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, Vince Cable, about qualification inflation and that one did not need a degree to be a nurse. In responding to my editorial Cable invited a debate on the balance to be struck between vocational and academic training and the potential of higher level (he cited level 4) apprenticeship training. In this issue we continue this debate with a Guest Editorial from John Wells, to which I respond. The editors
would like to invite further contributions to this important dialogue. Please submit commentaries on the papers published hitherto for publication in future issue. Reference Norman, I.J., 2014. Nursing must be a graduate profession (Well, he would say that, wouldn’t he!) Int. J. Nurs. Stud. 51, 523–525.
Editor-in-Chief Ian Norman International Journal of Nursing Studies
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2014.04.008 0020-7489/ß 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Please cite this article in press as: Norman, I., Editorial debate on the future of nurse education. Int. J. Nurs. Stud. (2014), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2014.04.008
NS-2383; No. of Pages 1 International Journal of Nursing Studies xxx (2014) xxx–xxx
Contents lists available at ScienceDirect
International Journal of Nursing Studies journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/ijns
Editorial
Editorial debate on the future of nurse education
In a recent issue of the International Nursing Studies I made a case for nursing to be a graduate profession (Norman, 2014). My editorial was in a response to some comments made by the UK Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, Vince Cable, about qualification inflation and that one did not need a degree to be a nurse. In responding to my editorial Cable invited a debate on the balance to be struck between vocational and academic training and the potential of higher level (he cited level 4) apprenticeship training. In this issue we continue this debate with a Guest Editorial from John Wells, to which I respond. The editors
would like to invite further contributions to this important dialogue. Please submit commentaries on the papers published hitherto for publication in future issue. Reference Norman, I.J., 2014. Nursing must be a graduate profession (Well, he would say that, wouldn’t he!) Int. J. Nurs. Stud. 51, 523–525.
Editor-in-Chief Ian Norman International Journal of Nursing Studies
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2014.04.008 0020-7489/ß 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Please cite this article in press as: Norman, I., Editorial debate on the future of nurse education. Int. J. Nurs. Stud. (2014), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2014.04.008
