Comparison of Access to Higher Education Nursing Programs in UK Universities

This article compares and contrasts the Access to Higher Education Nursing programs offered by University of Liverpool, Coventry University, and University of Salford in the UK. It provides information on their facilities, course fees, entry prerequisites, and other key features.

Access to higher education nursing

Table of Contents
QUESTION 3...................................................................................................................................3
QUESTION 5.................................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

QUESTION 3
For higher education in nursing , the chosen degree is Master of science in nursing (M.Sc in
nursing). The three colleges which are under consideration are :-
 University of Liverpool :- It is public research university, situated in the liverpool,
England. Founded in 1881, and it gained its grant in 1903. Nine Nobel prize winner are the
alumni of this university and offer more than 230 degree courses in 103 subjects. The
campus is in 100 acres in which 192 non- residential buildings are there (Li, 2020).
According to the published data in The Independent, university of Liverpool ranked 31st
among 124 on the basis of nine measures.
 University of Salford :- It is public university, situated in Salford, Greater Manchester,
England. Founded in 1896 and became university in 1967. In 2010, A learning, teaching
and researching space is opened in the university with 39 undergraduates and post
graduates programmes. From 2019 data source, the university has a turnover of 180.5
Million.
 Coventry university :- It is public university, situated in Coventry, England. This
university is founded in 1843 and have campus in 33 acre with mixture of new purpose
built building and converted structure. This university is divided into four faculties which
are divided into different schools. This university offers 130 undergraduates degree and
100 postgraduates degree courses. Several famous personalities are the Alumuni of this
university.
Key consideration while searching for the college
University of Liverpool
Placements :- College placement or campus recruitment is a program conducted in the
universities or other educational places, which provide jobs to students when students are
completing or completed their studies. It is process in which companies or organization come to
the college, conducts written test, verbal test or interview and hire or recruit the applicable
candidate to work for their companies or organization (Nsakashalo-Senkwe, 2021). University of
Liverpool provides wide range of career choices and allow student to gain work experiences
during the course period. Work experience turn on the possibility to sample a mixture of jobs,
across the entire range of interest and academics cognition. This work experiences record will be
an advantage for applying jobs. This work experience are allow to work in both clinical and non-

clinical work place. The university arranges placement throughout the year in consideration to
the to availability.
Facilities :- university is based around urban campus, five minutes walk from Liverpool city
centre. It is around 100 acres containing 192 non-residential building comprising 69 lecture
theatres, 114 teaching places and researching facilities. 51 residential building providing 3385
rooms for students . The main building ' Central Teaching laboratory ' is built in large autrium
which can accommodate 1600 students at one time. A teaching space, Multi departmental
teaching space, computer centre and a common work space.
Course Fees :- M.Sc. in Nursing is a one year full time course under Faculty of Health and Life
sciences, under university of Liverpool, UK. The course fee for the M.Sc. in Nursing is 23,200
pound per year.
Library :- This university has two libraries first one is Sydney Jones Library which holds the
arts, humanities, law, music, archaeology and social and environmental sciences collections and
the other one is Harold Cohen Library which holds the medical, dental, science, engineering and
veterinary sciences collections.
Scholarship :- This university offers a wide range of scholarship and bursaries to support the
talented and needful students. This university has strong track record for providing finances for
higher education to children.
Administration: Administration of Liverpool university is responsible for the central
administrative functions which are involved in life cycle of student, this includes enrolment,
graduation, examination and ceremonies. Liverpool university in nursing, is estimated to provide
a lifelong learning and working opportunities. University of Liverpool's nursing programme is a
part of School of Health and Sciences postgraduate portfolio. This enable students of nursing to
complete professional development modules by completing the credits (Green, 2020). The Master's
in nursing course is led by some experienced and dedicated nursing staff who work as being a
large team of healthcare experts. The teaching method of Liverpool university is evidence based
and it is informed with relevant results.
Curricular activities: The Liverpool university along with academic studies, accounts for a range
of on campus activities including volunteering, sports club joining, mentoring and taking
additional courses. There are more than 150 societies other than sports club which are referred
for students. The Culture of The Liverpool university consist of nightlife, music, theatre

performances, guide societies and victoria gallery and museum. In addition to this, The
University of Liverpool provide other curricular activities like civic engagement, honor societies,
diversity, religious programmes, leisure an student run event planning board.
Educational campaigns and research programmes: University of Liverpool comes under the
count of one of the leading research institute in UK. The postgraduate nursing programmes that
is master in nursing aims to contribute for establishing a research environment where students
manage and support academic studies along with their research work (Cooper, 2018). The course
of Msc in Nursing is a one year full time course under The University of Liverpool in UK,
offered by faculty of health and life sciences.
Entry prerequisites: The rate of acceptance at University of Liverpool is about 14%. This
acceptance rate is quite high in comparison to other prestigious universities. That signifies that
university approves or accept around 14 applicants out of 100 applicants who apply for
admission. Generally, The University of Liverpool accepts qualification of IELTS with marks
6.5/9 with a minimum of 6.0 cgpa in each component, for foreign students. For MSc Nursing
programmes, university ask for graduation eligibility. Other eligibility criteria includes PTE
exam and other conditional offers.
University ranking: University of Liverpool has got rank of 155th among global universities.
Universities are ranked as per their performances across the set and accepted excellence
indicators. The university of Liverpool is ranked 58th among the best global universities of
Europe. It is given rank, 18th among the best global universities of UK. The research reputation
of Liverpool university shows that it has Global score of 67. its global research reputation is
ranked 224th position. Whereas, the regional research reputation shows it's rank to be 291th. The
university of Liverpool comes across the best universities for nursing in UK which includes adult
nursing, midwifery and neonatal care (Newberry, 2018).
Coventry university
Placements :- This university provide successful placements to several national and international
organisations. The universities arrange the 2300 practice hours, which fulfil the professional
body requirement for the placement criteria (Beg, Debnath and Roy, 2022).
Facilities :- University occupies 33 acres in Coventry city centre. There is a mixture of new
purpose built building and converted structure. This university is divided into four faculties
which are divided into different schools. This university offers 130 undergraduates degree and

100 postgraduates degree courses. Two fully equipped mopped hospital wards consisting of 4
beds each. Midwifery suite is fully equipped with delivery facilities.
Course Fees :- M.Sc. in Nursing is a one year full time course under Faculty of Health and Life
sciences, under Coventry University. The course fee for the M.Sc. in Nursing is 9,250 pound
per year.
Library :- the library facilities includes work space for group, silent learning area, post graduate
learning room equipped with IT and audio visual equipment.
Scholarship :- Coventry University provide merit scholarship of 1500 pound. Several
categorization are done for providing finance to the student like 20% discount with
Alumni, Disability allowance, Enhanced learning credit scheme.
Administration: Administration of Coventry university focus for functions which are related to
student life-cycles, this includes student's enrolment, graduation, examination and ceremonies.
Salford university in nursing, is estimated to provide academic knowledge, training experience,
support and encouragement to students. The university formally headed by Chancellor. Coventry
is categorised into four facilities . Nursing post graduation develop skills of students in terms of
knowledge and training (Henry and Howarth, 2018).
Curricular activities: The university provide best curriculum activities to reduce the stress level
of students, this include gym, sports, clubs, social media hub and sports and recreations.
Educational campaigns and research programmes: The university focuses on research missions
and research training for students as well as the staff. The research rank of Coventry University
is 551-600.
Entry prerequisites: The entry prerequisites of Coventry University is qualification of higher
secondary certificate with equivalent of 65% GPA with IELTS score of at least 6.0. The
acceptance rate of Coventry University is 32% which signifies that from every 100 students, 32
get accepted (Leighton, 2020).
University ranking: The Coventry University has got the QS best student cities ranking order
40th. The global rank order of Coventry university is between 651-700. The university is
fully accredited by NMC which provide eligibility for nurse registration and it is ranking
at 7th position in overall UK.
University of Salford

Placements :- According th the NMC guideline, this university provides sufficient work hour
and wide range of placements.
Facilities :- A learning, teaching and researching space is opened in the university with 39
undergraduates and post graduates programmes. Peel hall with 400 seating capacities, hosted
many cultural and educational programs (Leigh, Littlewood and Heggs, 2018). The Tom
Husband Leisure Centre contains gym, spa, swimming pool, multi use sports hall and climbing
halls.
Course Fees :- M.Sc. in Nursing is a one year full time course under Faculty of Health and Life
sciences, under university of Salford, UK. The course fee for the M.Sc. in Nursing is 8,550
pound per year (Begley, Donnelly, Jarvis and Sissons, 2019).
Library :- The library facilities include space for group work, learning area, post graduate
learning room,common room equipped with IT and audio visual equipment. A photography
studios and a room for specialist workshop.
Scholarship :- The successful completion of scholarship will give scholarship award between
1,000 pound to 5,000 pound.
Administration: Administration of Salford university accounts for functions which are related to
life cycle of students, this includes enrolment, graduation, examination and ceremonies. Salford
university in nursing, is estimated to provide academic knowledge, training experience, support
and encouragement to students.
Curricular activities: The university of Salford provide plenty of other curricular activities to its
students which include welcome events, student's hub, social events, Student's Union,
recruitment events etc (Tume, McEvoy, Vollam and Trapani, 2022).
Educational campaigns and research programmes: The research framework of Salford
university rate as 78%. The performance of university of Salford, placed it at 65th rank in terms
of research and quality in overall UK.
Entry prerequisites: The rate of acceptance at University of Liverpool is about 62%. This
acceptance rate is quite low in comparison to other prestigious universities. That signifies that
university approves or accept around 64 applicants out of 100 applicants who apply for
admission (Sutton and et. al., 2022). The application mode of University of Salford is online (Craig
and Dowding, 2019) . The university consider other qualification like Ucas points, GCSEs,
admission tests, auditions, interviews and portfolios.

University ranking: University of Salford come under the top public universities of Salford in
UK. Rank of The University of Salford is 801-1000 in the ranking of QS World University
Rankings 2023. The rank of University of Salford is 1077 among best global universities )
(TANG, 2021).
Table outliting the main qualities, features and detailed entry requirements for all the three
universities and nursing course.
Basis of
differentiation
University of Liverpool Coventry University University of Salford
Main qualities The main qualities of this
university include its
ranking as well as
reputation, career and
employability, its unique
departments, scholarships
and support aspect and
many more. The University
of Liverpool is renowned
for excellent teaching and
research that particularly
associated with the
professors that include
Medicine, Dentistry,
business law, etc.
Within this university,
the main qualities
consist of its awards
and rankings, effective
experience of the
students, nationally
recognised subjects as
well as courses, future
employability for the
students and many
others. Coventry
University is a global
university where
opportunities for
global expansion are at
top.
This university has its
worldwide accredited
sources as well as
provides an individual
a chance to learn new
languages. It is a
leading public
institution of higher
level of education and
research.
Features The key features of this
university consist of that it
provides a wide number of
facilities such as eating and
The major features of
this university are that
it provides study
facilities, life on
The key features of
this university include
a 350 capacity theatre,
voice acting studios,

drinking, sports centre,
library, IT facilities,
accessibility to campus,
faith facilities and many
more. The university has
also a key feature of getting
around. A self-guided
campus tour and food and
drink on the campus guide.
campus, international
access to study,
research centres, etc.
photography studios,
screen acting studios,
specialist workshops,
recording studios as
well as a large gallery
space.
Detailed entry
requirement
The rate of acceptance at
University of Liverpool is
about 62%. This acceptance
rate is quite low in
comparison to other
prestigious universities.
That signifies that university
approves or accept around
64 applicants out of 100
applicants who apply for
admission.
The entry prerequisites
of Coventry University
is qualification of
higher secondary
certificate with
equivalent of 65%
GPA with IELTS
score of at least 6.0.
The acceptance rate of
Coventry University is
32% which signifies
that from every 100
students, 32 get
accepted.
The application mode
of University of
Salford is online. The
university consider
other qualification like
Ucas points, GCSEs,
admission tests,
auditions, interviews
and portfolios.
Master in
Nursing
The postgraduate nursing
programmes that is master
in nursing aims to
contribute for establishing
a research environment
where students manage
and support academic
Salford university in
nursing, is estimated to
provide academic
knowledge, training
experience, support
and encouragement to
students. The research
Nursing post
graduation develop
skills of students in
terms of knowledge
and training.The
university focuses on
research missions and

studies along with their
research work. The course
of MSc in Nursing is a one
year full time course under
The University of
Liverpool in UK, offered
by faculty of health and
life sciences.
framework of Salford
university rate as 78%.
The performance of
university of Salford,
placed it at 65th rank in
terms of research and
quality in overall UK.
research training for
students as well as the
staff. The research
rank of Coventry
University is 551-600.
SUMMARY
The activity found to be useful in establishing a comparison in between the different key features
including placements, facilities, accommodations, fee and scholarships, library, administration,
educational status , curricular activities etc. at three different universities which were selected for
Nursing post graduation. The activities helped in identifying the main key features of all three
universities as all the three were having different key areas of their specialisation and it was
difficult to compare them. The activity assisted in identification of features of all the three
universities and their detailed entry prerequisites which was necessary to be identified. The
overall activity evaluated the universities and proved to be useful in reaching the conclusion that
which university adheres to the required steps of desired path.
QUESTION 5
In the nursing profession, the personal statement is generally a kind of precise
information about a person. It mainly compliments their grades as well as the other quantifiable
elements, giving a more personal look towards the dedication of the candidate, work ethics and
work. In this, the components that are involved in the nursing personal statement such as
education, volunteer experience, work experience, personal motivation, the relevant skills,
unique traits and many more. In this, there are generally various careers across the world which
are so much as they are within the classroom as what they are within the real world. Therefore, it
is believed that the nursing is so much more unique. while talking about my family members, my
parents are both working in the clinical field. My father is a neurologist whereas, my mother is a
care nurse. Sometimes, they would let me tag along with their work as well as such times which
were what I really loved the most. In this, seeing the emotions which are overflowing from the

faces of the vulnerable patients, having an utter sadness over the death of their loved ones or the
delightedness when my mother generally tells them that they can go out in no time. It mainly was
one of those times which I positively realise that is not just a profession, it is generally a
commitment, a heartfelt service of the love and care, a duty towards the fellowmen. It is
generally my goal to be able to use my effective skills as well as comfort to help the people in
their healing procedure. Attending the care nursing school can effectively give me the skills as
well as the effective knowledge and understanding which I require to make the dream of
becoming a nurse in reality. I have had various experiences within the healthcare organization
which effectively prepared me for working as a care nurse. In the high school and universities, I
generally spent various summers interning at the centre healthcare organizations as a nursing
associate. I was mainly responsible for the setting up of the equipment’s and also administering
several diagnostic tests. In addition to this, as an undergraduate student, I have also volunteered
as an emergency clinical technician services, where I have learned to stabilise several specific
traumas within the critical condition. I have done my Bachelor’s in the field of biology that can
signifies my effective understanding of various underlying biological conceptions behind the
ailments which the care nurses can treat on daily basis. I have looked forward to bring my
positive experience, understanding and knowledge within the nursing care school in order to
further refine and hone them. within the nursing care school, I not only expect to enhance the
understanding and knowledge, but can also able to learn various new thinking skills. I effectively
able to understand that no two of the situations can alike, as well as most of the times, a
vulnerable patient can present a myriad of the specific symptoms which are needed a
combination of the effective methods. furthermore, I hope to be able to gain an effective practical
experience in order to learn how to work more cooperatively with the other healthcare
professionals as well as the care nurses in order to give the most comfortable experience with the
vulnerable patients.
While communicating with healthcare professionals, it is necessary for the nursing
workers to have an effective and skilful conversation skills. it can help to establish an effective
relationship with healthcare professionals and patients, such that as a care nurse it is important to
know more about the situation, feelings and emotions of the patient. establishing an
understanding relationship can help me to provide a better care treatment to them in order to
improve their well-being and provide a quality of life.

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