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that parliamentary debate and vote tomorrow. Here | 0:00:00 | 0:00:00 | |
that parliamentary debate and vote tomorrow. Here on | 0:00:00 | 0:00:00 | |
Welcome to Wales Today. | 0:00:02 | 0:00:03 | |
Our top story: | 0:00:03 | 0:00:04 | |
A BBC investigation exposes how students could get tuition fees | 0:00:04 | 0:00:07 | |
paid, and student loans funded, by using bogus qualifications. | 0:00:07 | 0:00:13 | |
And we're all potential organ donors now. | 0:00:13 | 0:00:15 | |
Wales becomes first in the UK to introduce | 0:00:15 | 0:00:18 | |
a revolutionary new system. | 0:00:18 | 0:00:22 | |
Good evening. | 0:00:38 | 0:00:38 | |
There are calls tonight for an urgent investigation into how | 0:00:38 | 0:00:41 | |
an undercover journalist was offered a student loan using faked | 0:00:41 | 0:00:43 | |
qualifications at a Welsh college. | 0:00:43 | 0:00:47 | |
Darren Millar, who chairs the Assembly's Public | 0:00:47 | 0:00:50 | |
Accounts Committee, says the police and Auditor General | 0:00:50 | 0:00:52 | |
should look into evidence of a scam at the Cardiff campus of the West | 0:00:52 | 0:00:56 | |
London Vocational Training College. | 0:00:56 | 0:01:01 | |
It's been uncovered as part of a BBC Wales Week | 0:01:01 | 0:01:08 | |
In Week Out investigation. | 0:01:08 | 0:01:09 | |
Tim Rogers has this exclusive report. | 0:01:09 | 0:01:12 | |
So proud is the West London Vocational Training | 0:01:12 | 0:01:14 | |
College of what it has to offer in Cardiff that the principal and owner | 0:01:14 | 0:01:18 | |
were delighted to show us around. | 0:01:18 | 0:01:19 | |
What is going on in here? | 0:01:19 | 0:01:21 | |
What we discovered when we went undercover is a scam | 0:01:21 | 0:01:23 | |
in which students are getting lessons in how to cheat and lie | 0:01:23 | 0:01:26 | |
their way to loans and grants. | 0:01:26 | 0:01:28 | |
This is taxi driver and student recruiter Kazi Shajahan, | 0:01:28 | 0:01:31 | |
advising a member of our team to fake a certificate to | 0:01:31 | 0:01:34 | |
get on to an HND in business. | 0:01:34 | 0:01:37 | |
The college gets ?6,000 per student in tuition fees for a level four | 0:01:49 | 0:01:52 | |
and five HND and that is public money from Student Finance Wales, | 0:01:52 | 0:01:56 | |
part of the Welsh Government. | 0:01:56 | 0:01:59 | |
One man, who asked not to be identified, who went to enrol | 0:01:59 | 0:02:01 | |
as a student, says Shajahan told him it was easy money and he wouldn't | 0:02:01 | 0:02:06 | |
have to do any work. | 0:02:06 | 0:02:08 | |
He could pay for someone else to do it. | 0:02:08 | 0:02:10 | |
At the beginning he said I don't have to do anything | 0:02:10 | 0:02:13 | |
because all the assignments, all the work is going to be... | 0:02:13 | 0:02:16 | |
You pay for it and you buy it. | 0:02:16 | 0:02:20 | |
The principal of the college is Manoj Kumar, who | 0:02:20 | 0:02:22 | |
calls himself Dr. He claims to have a PhD from Cambridge University but | 0:02:22 | 0:02:29 | |
when we checked we found this was a lie. | 0:02:29 | 0:02:31 | |
You are a faker, aren't you? | 0:02:31 | 0:02:33 | |
No. | 0:02:33 | 0:02:34 | |
Why should I fake that? | 0:02:34 | 0:02:35 | |
No. | 0:02:35 | 0:02:37 | |
Can you prove it? | 0:02:37 | 0:02:38 | |
Yes, we can. | 0:02:38 | 0:02:41 | |
In England, before private colleges are allowed | 0:02:41 | 0:02:43 | |
to access public money, they have to be inspected by regulators, | 0:02:43 | 0:02:45 | |
the Quality Assurance Agency. | 0:02:45 | 0:02:46 | |
But the QAA doesn't have the power to inspect private colleges | 0:02:46 | 0:02:51 | |
or higher education in Wales. | 0:02:51 | 0:02:53 | |
Today, Darren Millar, the chairman of the | 0:02:53 | 0:02:54 | |
Assembly's Public Accounts Committee called for the system to be | 0:02:54 | 0:02:57 | |
investigated by the Auditor General and for the West London Vocational | 0:02:57 | 0:03:01 | |
Training College in Cardiff to be looked at by the police. | 0:03:01 | 0:03:05 | |
We need some swift response from the Welsh Government, we need | 0:03:05 | 0:03:07 | |
the Auditor General for Wales to consider the implications of this | 0:03:07 | 0:03:10 | |
for the wider FE sector because, let's face it, if this is going on | 0:03:10 | 0:03:14 | |
in one organisation it could potentially be going on elsewhere. | 0:03:14 | 0:03:18 | |
The college's owner says he denies knowing of any wrongdoing | 0:03:18 | 0:03:20 | |
in the recruitment of students to his college | 0:03:20 | 0:03:25 | |
and he says that Shajahan was never employed as a recruitment director | 0:03:25 | 0:03:30 | |
and the principal, Manoj Kumar, has been removed from his position. | 0:03:30 | 0:03:33 | |
The Education Minister wasn't available for interview, | 0:03:33 | 0:03:35 | |
but this afternoon in the Assembly he was asked about this story. | 0:03:35 | 0:03:38 | |
This was his response. | 0:03:38 | 0:03:41 | |
We do not know as yet if there is any substance to these allegations. | 0:03:41 | 0:03:45 | |
It is for the BBC to make those allegations, as we believe they | 0:03:45 | 0:03:48 | |
will, and then to pass them to the police as they should. | 0:03:48 | 0:03:53 | |
I will say there would be no system of regulation, | 0:03:53 | 0:03:57 | |
or it would be very difficult to contrive of a system of regulation | 0:03:57 | 0:04:01 | |
that could be 100% proof against any planned or deliberate fraud. | 0:04:01 | 0:04:08 | |
And you can see more on this story in Week In Week Out tonight here on | 0:04:08 | 0:04:12 | |
BBC One Wales after this bulletin. | 0:04:12 | 0:04:16 | |
It's been described by the Health Minister as a "revolution" | 0:04:16 | 0:04:18 | |
which could save lives. | 0:04:18 | 0:04:20 | |
A new law has come into force which means every adult in Wales is | 0:04:20 | 0:04:23 | |
considered willing to donate their organs after death unless | 0:04:23 | 0:04:26 | |
they've specifically opted out. | 0:04:26 | 0:04:28 | |
Wales is the only nation in the UK with a so called "presumed consent". | 0:04:28 | 0:04:33 | |
Our Health Correspondent, Owain Clarke, reports. | 0:04:33 | 0:04:36 | |
At Wales' biggest hospital, this teenager is getting a new | 0:04:37 | 0:04:39 | |
kidney and a new lease of life. | 0:04:39 | 0:04:43 | |
It is one of around 120 kidney and pancreas transplant operations | 0:04:43 | 0:04:46 | |
that take place here each year. | 0:04:46 | 0:04:49 | |
But at any one point, over 200 others are on waiting lists, waiting | 0:04:49 | 0:04:53 | |
for that crucial phone call. | 0:04:53 | 0:04:56 | |
At 21 years old, it's no surprise that Sam wants to | 0:04:56 | 0:04:59 | |
live life at full throttle, but needing a kidney, feels his | 0:04:59 | 0:05:03 | |
illness is always holding him back. | 0:05:03 | 0:05:07 | |
When it failed in 2012, I had 16 seizures and my heart stopped twice | 0:05:07 | 0:05:14 | |
and I was in four induced comas. | 0:05:14 | 0:05:17 | |
I've been on dialysis for three years. | 0:05:17 | 0:05:20 | |
The new system is only likely to result in around 15 extra donors | 0:05:20 | 0:05:24 | |
a year and about 45 extra organs. | 0:05:24 | 0:05:28 | |
Will the results be worth it? | 0:05:28 | 0:05:31 | |
It is frustrating to see patients waiting for long periods of time and | 0:05:31 | 0:05:35 | |
more frustrating to see their health deteriorate during that period. | 0:05:35 | 0:05:39 | |
A number of patients, their health deteriorates so much that | 0:05:39 | 0:05:41 | |
we can no longer transplant them. | 0:05:41 | 0:05:43 | |
I met Calvin Jones from Gors Las just hours after he received | 0:05:43 | 0:05:47 | |
a new kidney in Cardiff. | 0:05:47 | 0:05:49 | |
How are you feeling now? | 0:05:49 | 0:05:51 | |
I'm feeling 200% better now. | 0:05:51 | 0:05:54 | |
I'm sitting up. | 0:05:54 | 0:05:56 | |
The new law will bring into force a so-called soft opt-out system | 0:05:56 | 0:06:00 | |
which means families will always be involved in discussions after death, | 0:06:00 | 0:06:03 | |
but what they won't be able to do is refuse a donation if it is clear | 0:06:03 | 0:06:07 | |
that is what their relative would have wanted, although in reality, | 0:06:07 | 0:06:11 | |
staff are unlikely to press ahead if it causes any distress. | 0:06:11 | 0:06:16 | |
The law sets up the basic rules around something. | 0:06:16 | 0:06:20 | |
In the end, you have to rely on those people, those highly | 0:06:20 | 0:06:24 | |
trained people who are very sensitive to the very difficult set | 0:06:24 | 0:06:28 | |
of circumstances they would be in. | 0:06:28 | 0:06:30 | |
Others argue for the law to really work, the Welsh | 0:06:30 | 0:06:33 | |
Government needs to make sure it spends enough on specialist beds. | 0:06:33 | 0:06:36 | |
Even if the effect of the new law is just to get more of us talking about | 0:06:36 | 0:06:40 | |
organo donation and our wishes, then supporters say it will be worth it. | 0:06:40 | 0:06:50 | |
Plans to temporarily remove doctor-led maternity care | 0:06:50 | 0:06:51 | |
from a hospital in North Wales appear to have been abandoned. | 0:06:51 | 0:06:54 | |
A document to be presented to the Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board | 0:06:54 | 0:06:57 | |
next week, recommends services at Glan Clwyd Hospital in Bodelwyddan | 0:06:57 | 0:07:00 | |
should remain as they are. | 0:07:00 | 0:07:02 | |
Chris Dearden reports. | 0:07:02 | 0:07:05 | |
Huge protests against the plans. | 0:07:05 | 0:07:07 | |
Now it seems these campaigners have got what they wanted. | 0:07:07 | 0:07:11 | |
Until today, the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board's preferred | 0:07:11 | 0:07:15 | |
option was to temporarily downgrade the maternity unit at Ysbyty Glan | 0:07:15 | 0:07:18 | |
Clwyd, taking doctors away and leaving midwives in charge. | 0:07:18 | 0:07:22 | |
The health board said it had to make the change because | 0:07:22 | 0:07:24 | |
of recruitment problems. | 0:07:24 | 0:07:25 | |
But this evening, a surprise announcement - | 0:07:25 | 0:07:27 | |
things can stay as they are. | 0:07:27 | 0:07:31 | |
It is a victory for common sense and, you know, I do strongly doubt | 0:07:31 | 0:07:36 | |
whether if people didn't come out in their hundreds back in February and | 0:07:36 | 0:07:39 | |
if we hadn't launched the judicial review application against the | 0:07:39 | 0:07:42 | |
board, whether we would be in this position today. | 0:07:42 | 0:07:45 | |
The health board stresses that the safety of mothers | 0:07:45 | 0:07:47 | |
and babies is its main priority. | 0:07:47 | 0:07:49 | |
It says this latest plan has the backing of medical experts | 0:07:49 | 0:07:52 | |
and isn't just a reaction to the protests there have been | 0:07:52 | 0:07:55 | |
across North Wales during summer. | 0:07:55 | 0:07:56 | |
It will now take plans to meeting next Tuesday for a final decision. | 0:07:56 | 0:08:04 | |
14 flood alerts and six flood warnings in force tonight. | 0:08:04 | 0:08:07 | |
Let's get the weather. | 0:08:07 | 0:08:08 | |
Behnaz has tonight's forecast. | 0:08:08 | 0:08:11 | |
Yes, it's been a fairly mild start for the first | 0:08:11 | 0:08:13 | |
day of meteorological winter but we do have a yellow be aware warning | 0:08:13 | 0:08:16 | |
in place for the rain tomorrow. | 0:08:16 | 0:08:19 | |
With the ground already saturated and the high river levels we could | 0:08:19 | 0:08:22 | |
see further risk of flooding. | 0:08:22 | 0:08:24 | |
It is failry quiet tonight, quite a bit of cloud, | 0:08:24 | 0:08:32 | |
-- It is fairly quiet tonight, quite a bit of cloud, | 0:08:32 | 0:08:35 | |
the odd shower possible, and fairly mild, temperatures 8-12 Celsius, the | 0:08:35 | 0:08:38 | |
wind picking up as we go into the early hours of tomorrow morning. | 0:08:38 | 0:08:41 | |
It is this cold front which will bring more rain and it | 0:08:41 | 0:08:43 | |
will linger on well into Thursday. | 0:08:43 | 0:08:45 | |
First thing tomorrow morning, a dry start, blustery conditions, the rain | 0:08:45 | 0:08:48 | |
pushing into parts of the north and West initially and intensifying | 0:08:48 | 0:08:50 | |
as we go into the afternoon. | 0:08:50 | 0:08:52 | |
For the rest of the British Isles, a lovely day across Scotland | 0:08:52 | 0:08:55 | |
and Northern Ireland. | 0:08:55 | 0:08:55 | |
Further west, the rain pushing in and sticking around. | 0:08:55 | 0:08:57 | |
Further south and east, drier but cloudy with highs of 8-14 Celsius. | 0:08:57 | 0:09:03 | |
In Wales tomorrow afternoon, a wet and windy afternoon with a potential | 0:09:03 | 0:09:06 | |
for some flooding as the rain will carry on into the evening. | 0:09:06 | 0:09:10 | |
Top temperatures 12-13 Celsius, and a soggy night to come with | 0:09:10 | 0:09:14 | |
blustery conditions into the early hours of Thursday morning. | 0:09:14 | 0:09:17 | |
The far south-east corner escapes the worst of the rain, | 0:09:17 | 0:09:20 | |
and a fairly mild night, temperatures 7-12 Celsius. | 0:09:20 | 0:09:24 | |
It is a wet start to Thursday morning, | 0:09:24 | 0:09:26 | |
perhaps more dry across North Wales but the rain will push back up. | 0:09:26 | 0:09:29 | |
Temperatures 9-14 Celsius. | 0:09:29 | 0:09:32 | |
Another mild day. | 0:09:32 | 0:09:33 | |
Friday is looking promising. | 0:09:33 | 0:09:35 | |
A chilly start, some sunshine, a lovely day but feeling cooler. | 0:09:35 | 0:09:38 | |
Blustery conditions by the time we get to Friday evening, | 0:09:38 | 0:09:41 | |
with more rain coming in, and that sets the scene for the weekend, | 0:09:41 | 0:09:44 | |
which looks rather unsettled. | 0:09:44 | 0:09:48 | |
Week In Week Out is next. | 0:09:48 | 0:09:49 | |
That's Wales Today. | 0:09:49 | 0:09:52 | |
Goodnight. | 0:09:52 | 0:09:56 |