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Senior staff at Kingston University ran into trouble earlier this week over plans to charge student nurses Pounds 100 for their uniforms. Peter Scott, Kingston vice-chancellor, and Robert Boyd, principal of St Thomas' Medical School, which runs the courses jointly with the university, were forced to reverse a decision to make nursing trainees pay for uniforms out of their Pounds 5,300-a-year bursaries after advice from the Department of Health that the move fell foul of the university's Pounds 8 million NHS contract to train nurses.