FALL RIVER — The Diman Regional Technical Institute School of Practical Nursing, a post-secondary program that prepares students for jobs as LPNs, was forced to suspend this fall’s full-time program for lack of qualified teachers. 

Diman Superintendent Brian Bentley said the school has refunded tuition to 52 students and is helping place them in other licensed practical nursing training courses. 

“It’s always unfair when you’ve promised something to someone ... and now it has to fold," Bentley said in an interview. “And the students didn’t do anything wrong.” 

The move does not affect any students at the high school level.

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