title: Undergraduate nurse education in trouble.
abstract: Earlier in my career I had the great privilege of working alongside Baroness Jean McFarlane at the University of Manchester. The leader of the first undergraduate nursing programme at an English university, she was a fierce proponent and defender of nurses being educated in universities. I cannot imagine her response to the persistent offensive on nursing in higher education.
authors.affiliation: University of Lincoln, chair of the Foundation of Nursing Studies and vice-chair of the RCN Foundation.
authors.forename: Tony
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Butterworth