01/12/2015 BBC Wales Today

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Welcome to Wales Today.

Our top story:

A BBC investigation exposes how students could get tuition fees

paid, and student loans funded, by using bogus qualifications.

And we're all potential organ donors now.

Wales becomes first in the UK to introduce

a revolutionary new system.

Good evening.

There are calls tonight for an urgent investigation into how

an undercover journalist was offered a student loan using faked

qualifications at a Welsh college.

Darren Millar, who chairs the Assembly's Public

Accounts Committee, says the police and Auditor General

should look into evidence of a scam at the Cardiff campus of the West

London Vocational Training College.

It's been uncovered as part of a BBC Wales Week

In Week Out investigation.

Tim Rogers has this exclusive report.

So proud is the West London Vocational Training

College of what it has to offer in Cardiff that the principal and owner

were delighted to show us around.

What is going on in here?

What we discovered when we went undercover is a scam

in which students are getting lessons in how to cheat and lie

their way to loans and grants.

This is taxi driver and student recruiter Kazi Shajahan,

advising a member of our team to fake a certificate to

get on to an HND in business.

The college gets ?6,000 per student in tuition fees for a level four

and five HND and that is public money from Student Finance Wales,

part of the Welsh Government.

One man, who asked not to be identified, who went to enrol

as a student, says Shajahan told him it was easy money and he wouldn't

have to do any work.

He could pay for someone else to do it.

At the beginning he said I don't have to do anything

because all the assignments, all the work is going to be...

You pay for it and you buy it.

The principal of the college is Manoj Kumar, who

calls himself Dr. He claims to have a PhD from Cambridge University but

when we checked we found this was a lie.

You are a faker, aren't you?

No.

Why should I fake that?

No.

Can you prove it?

Yes, we can.

In England, before private colleges are allowed

to access public money, they have to be inspected by regulators,

the Quality Assurance Agency.

But the QAA doesn't have the power to inspect private colleges

or higher education in Wales.

Today, Darren Millar, the chairman of the

Assembly's Public Accounts Committee called for the system to be

investigated by the Auditor General and for the West London Vocational

Training College in Cardiff to be looked at by the police.

We need some swift response from the Welsh Government, we need

the Auditor General for Wales to consider the implications of this

for the wider FE sector because, let's face it, if this is going on

in one organisation it could potentially be going on elsewhere.

The college's owner says he denies knowing of any wrongdoing

in the recruitment of students to his college

and he says that Shajahan was never employed as a recruitment director

and the principal, Manoj Kumar, has been removed from his position.

The Education Minister wasn't available for interview,

but this afternoon in the Assembly he was asked about this story.

This was his response.

We do not know as yet if there is any substance to these allegations.

It is for the BBC to make those allegations, as we believe they

will, and then to pass them to the police as they should.

I will say there would be no system of regulation,

or it would be very difficult to contrive of a system of regulation

that could be 100% proof against any planned or deliberate fraud.

And you can see more on this story in Week In Week Out tonight here on

BBC One Wales after this bulletin.

It's been described by the Health Minister as a "revolution"

which could save lives.

A new law has come into force which means every adult in Wales is

considered willing to donate their organs after death unless

they've specifically opted out.

Wales is the only nation in the UK with a so called "presumed consent".

Our Health Correspondent, Owain Clarke, reports.

At Wales' biggest hospital, this teenager is getting a new

kidney and a new lease of life.

It is one of around 120 kidney and pancreas transplant operations

that take place here each year.

But at any one point, over 200 others are on waiting lists, waiting

for that crucial phone call.

At 21 years old, it's no surprise that Sam wants to

live life at full throttle, but needing a kidney, feels his

illness is always holding him back.

When it failed in 2012, I had 16 seizures and my heart stopped twice

and I was in four induced comas.

I've been on dialysis for three years.

The new system is only likely to result in around 15 extra donors

a year and about 45 extra organs.

Will the results be worth it?

It is frustrating to see patients waiting for long periods of time and

more frustrating to see their health deteriorate during that period.

A number of patients, their health deteriorates so much that

we can no longer transplant them.

I met Calvin Jones from Gors Las just hours after he received

a new kidney in Cardiff.

How are you feeling now?

I'm feeling 200% better now.

I'm sitting up.

The new law will bring into force a so-called soft opt-out system

which means families will always be involved in discussions after death,

but what they won't be able to do is refuse a donation if it is clear

that is what their relative would have wanted, although in reality,

staff are unlikely to press ahead if it causes any distress.

The law sets up the basic rules around something.

In the end, you have to rely on those people, those highly

trained people who are very sensitive to the very difficult set

of circumstances they would be in.

Others argue for the law to really work, the Welsh

Government needs to make sure it spends enough on specialist beds.

Even if the effect of the new law is just to get more of us talking about

organo donation and our wishes, then supporters say it will be worth it.

Plans to temporarily remove doctor-led maternity care

from a hospital in North Wales appear to have been abandoned.

A document to be presented to the Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board

next week, recommends services at Glan Clwyd Hospital in Bodelwyddan

should remain as they are.

Chris Dearden reports.

Huge protests against the plans.

Now it seems these campaigners have got what they wanted.

Until today, the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board's preferred

option was to temporarily downgrade the maternity unit at Ysbyty Glan

Clwyd, taking doctors away and leaving midwives in charge.

The health board said it had to make the change because

of recruitment problems.

But this evening, a surprise announcement -

things can stay as they are.

It is a victory for common sense and, you know, I do strongly doubt

whether if people didn't come out in their hundreds back in February and

if we hadn't launched the judicial review application against the

board, whether we would be in this position today.

The health board stresses that the safety of mothers

and babies is its main priority.

It says this latest plan has the backing of medical experts

and isn't just a reaction to the protests there have been

across North Wales during summer.

It will now take plans to meeting next Tuesday for a final decision.

14 flood alerts and six flood warnings in force tonight.

Let's get the weather.

Behnaz has tonight's forecast.

Yes, it's been a fairly mild start for the first

day of meteorological winter but we do have a yellow be aware warning

in place for the rain tomorrow.

With the ground already saturated and the high river levels we could

see further risk of flooding.

It is failry quiet tonight, quite a bit of cloud,

-- It is fairly quiet tonight, quite a bit of cloud,

the odd shower possible, and fairly mild, temperatures 8-12 Celsius, the

wind picking up as we go into the early hours of tomorrow morning.

It is this cold front which will bring more rain and it

will linger on well into Thursday.

First thing tomorrow morning, a dry start, blustery conditions, the rain

pushing into parts of the north and West initially and intensifying

as we go into the afternoon.

For the rest of the British Isles, a lovely day across Scotland

and Northern Ireland.

Further west, the rain pushing in and sticking around.

Further south and east, drier but cloudy with highs of 8-14 Celsius.

In Wales tomorrow afternoon, a wet and windy afternoon with a potential

for some flooding as the rain will carry on into the evening.

Top temperatures 12-13 Celsius, and a soggy night to come with

blustery conditions into the early hours of Thursday morning.

The far south-east corner escapes the worst of the rain,

and a fairly mild night, temperatures 7-12 Celsius.

It is a wet start to Thursday morning,

perhaps more dry across North Wales but the rain will push back up.

Temperatures 9-14 Celsius.

Another mild day.

Friday is looking promising.

A chilly start, some sunshine, a lovely day but feeling cooler.

Blustery conditions by the time we get to Friday evening,

with more rain coming in, and that sets the scene for the weekend,

which looks rather unsettled.

Week In Week Out is next.

That's Wales Today.

Goodnight.