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October 29, 2007
<H1 class=heading>Students offered cash incentive to protect Britain from diseases
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<!-- END: Module - M24 Article Headline with no image --><!-- Article Copy module --><!-- BEGIN: Module - Main Article --><!-- Check the Article Type and display accordingly--><!-- Print Author image associated with the Author--><!-- Print the body of the article--><!-- Pagination -->A leading veterinary college is offering bursaries for its infectious diseases courses to rectify a lack of experts in the specialty, which covers foot-and-mouth disease, bird flu and bluetongue virus.
Mandy Nevel, the course director for the Royal Veterinary College, said that there was an urgent need to fill a skills gap. ?The challenge is that diseases coming into this country are going to keep increasing,? she said.
?Bluetongue will come back next year and I don?t doubt that in the next couple of years we could get something else ? maybe swine fever or avian influenza, which is having a massive impact world-wide.?
There is concern in the veterinary community that global warming, growing migration and tourism, and increased transport of animals across borders are likely to lead to an increase in exotic diseases. ?We are inevitably going to import some of these diseases and we need people trained up before that happens,? Ms Nevel said.
<!--#include file="m63-article-related-attachements.html"--><!-- BEGIN: Module - M63 - Article Related Attachements --><SCRIPT language=JavaScript>function pictureGalleryPopup(pubUrl,articleId) {var newWin = window.open(pubUrl+'template/2.0-0/element/pictureGalleryPopup.jsp?id='+articleId+'&&offset=0 &§ionName=UKScience','mywindow','menubar=0,res izable=0,width=615,height=655');}</SCRIPT><!-- BEGIN: Comment Teaser Module --><!-- END: Comment Teaser Module --><!-- BEGIN: Module - M63 - Article Related Package --><!-- END: Module - M63 - Article Related Package -->The five bursaries, of ?2,500 each, are being offered to attract the best candidates to the college?s MSc degree course in control of infectious diseases in animals. They are being paid for by the government-funded Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.
Students who graduate from the course will be ideally placed for key jobs in government departments, guiding policy on how to manage and control outbreaks of disease, the college said.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle2759831.ece
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<H1 class=heading>Students offered cash incentive to protect Britain from diseases
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<!-- END: Module - Main Heading --><!--CMA user Call Diffrenet Variation Of Image --><!-- BEGIN: Module - M24 Article Headline with no image (a) --><!-- getting the section url from article. This has been done so that correct url isgenerated if we are coming from a section or topic --><!-- Print Author name associated with the article --><!-- Print Author name from By Line associated with the article -->Nicola Woolcock
<!-- END: Module - M24 Article Headline with no image --><!-- Article Copy module --><!-- BEGIN: Module - Main Article --><!-- Check the Article Type and display accordingly--><!-- Print Author image associated with the Author--><!-- Print the body of the article--><!-- Pagination -->A leading veterinary college is offering bursaries for its infectious diseases courses to rectify a lack of experts in the specialty, which covers foot-and-mouth disease, bird flu and bluetongue virus.
Mandy Nevel, the course director for the Royal Veterinary College, said that there was an urgent need to fill a skills gap. ?The challenge is that diseases coming into this country are going to keep increasing,? she said.
?Bluetongue will come back next year and I don?t doubt that in the next couple of years we could get something else ? maybe swine fever or avian influenza, which is having a massive impact world-wide.?
There is concern in the veterinary community that global warming, growing migration and tourism, and increased transport of animals across borders are likely to lead to an increase in exotic diseases. ?We are inevitably going to import some of these diseases and we need people trained up before that happens,? Ms Nevel said.
<!--#include file="m63-article-related-attachements.html"--><!-- BEGIN: Module - M63 - Article Related Attachements --><SCRIPT language=JavaScript>function pictureGalleryPopup(pubUrl,articleId) {var newWin = window.open(pubUrl+'template/2.0-0/element/pictureGalleryPopup.jsp?id='+articleId+'&&offset=0 &§ionName=UKScience','mywindow','menubar=0,res izable=0,width=615,height=655');}</SCRIPT><!-- BEGIN: Comment Teaser Module --><!-- END: Comment Teaser Module --><!-- BEGIN: Module - M63 - Article Related Package --><!-- END: Module - M63 - Article Related Package -->The five bursaries, of ?2,500 each, are being offered to attract the best candidates to the college?s MSc degree course in control of infectious diseases in animals. They are being paid for by the government-funded Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.
Students who graduate from the course will be ideally placed for key jobs in government departments, guiding policy on how to manage and control outbreaks of disease, the college said.
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