Ministers have said they are "very close" to giving a direction which could pave the way for the University of East Anglia to start recruiting its first students for its planned school.

Work to build the £3m centre in a new extension of the Edith Cavell Building at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital site is under way, with construction financed half by the UEA and half by Norfolk councils.

The UEA dental school is being constructed at the Edith Cavell Buildings (Image: Google Street View)

But the UEA has been unable to start the process of recruiting the first cohort of students because the government, struggling with extreme pressures on its finances, has yet to instruct the Office for Students to allocate dental courses for 2026/27.

However, this week, health minister Stephen Kinnock, who previously said the UEA dental school........

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