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First tonight: On the day the A—level results are published the | :00:10. | :00:14. | |
region gets ready for a record number of students coming here to | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
university. Across Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk there | :00:17. | :00:25. | |
think it is a disgrace in this day and age that they cannot get hold of | :00:26. | :00:33. | |
the medical records. the state dummies helping to train a flying | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
medics. And the disappointment continues for | :00:35. | :00:42. | |
our athletes at the World Championships. | :00:42. | :00:51. | |
First tonight: On the day the A—level results are published the | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
region gets ready for a record number of students coming here to | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
university. Across Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
there are more than 50,000 students at University. We contacted our | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
universities about the number of offers they'd made this academic | :01:02. | :01:09. | |
year. All of those who responded had seen an increase in student numbers. | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
At the University Campus Suffolk admissions are up 5%. They are up by | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
almost 4.5% at the University of Essex. Anglia Ruskin have seen an | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
increase of just under 2%. Unfortunately the University of East | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
Anglia couldn't provide us with any figures. This report from Alex | :01:22. | :01:32. | |
Dunlop. Glasses of these, party balloons and | :01:32. | :01:39. | |
cupcakes that see great result. Clearly the teachers at this academy | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
in Norwich and now the grades in these gold envelopes. How did you | :01:42. | :01:55. | |
do? I got an 80, a star. All of the teachers and pupils at | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
this Academy are absolutely delighted. | :02:00. | :02:08. | |
You have to get the good grades, you have to get into the good | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
universities because that is what employers are going to want to three | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
years down the line when they finish their degree course. They will not | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
just look at the degree, they will look at where they got it from? | :02:20. | :02:28. | |
indeed. some school leavers go turn their | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
back on a degree. He walked straight into a media job after a course at | :02:34. | :02:46. | |
Norwich College. the media learning company offered | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
real experience whilst working in a commercial environment. The work 9—5 | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
is a real company. You work with real clients. We got real experience | :02:56. | :03:05. | |
while getting a real qualification. University applications might be up, | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
but I was struck by the amount of students who had the grades but did | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
not want to take a degree. I am not a big fan of being in all of that | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
debt. £27,000 at least. I want to stay at home and get an | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
apprenticeship and work my way up that way. | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
Nina from great Yarmouth is an example of how you can turn it | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
around. He had previously dropped out of college, but today he got | :03:35. | :04:02. | |
three A—star . Professor Jules Pretty, the Deputy | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
Vice Chancellor of the University of Essex, joins me now. | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
How busy has it been in Clearing today, what type of calls? It has | :04:08. | :04:16. | |
been a very busy day. Students who have been successful have been | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
accepted and students who have had to go into clearing to seek a place | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
have been running up universities —— ringing up universities to see if | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
they would be accepted. The National student satisfaction survey put | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
Essex as second in the country. Not only either more students coming to | :04:33. | :04:41. | |
the region, but there are more institutions able to offer an | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
excellent education. You're offering four per cent more places this | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
coming year. How much is that to do with students | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
choosing to study close to home to keep costs down? When the new fee | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
regime came and was an expectation that more students would lead | :04:56. | :05:05. | |
locally. But interestingly, that has not happened. Part of the reason is | :05:05. | :05:13. | |
that you come to university of course to study a degree but also | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
you come for three years of transformational experience, which | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
comes from the accommodation, the flats that you are then with other | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
students, from joining student societies and clubs and playing | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
sports. That comes from living on a campus such as the one we have here | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
at Essex and engaging with students and academics for the whole of the | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
year. That additional benefit on top of your degree is something that is | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
the important thing for 18—year—olds. | :05:41. | :05:47. | |
What is the impact likely to be of the new higher graders been able to | :05:47. | :05:53. | |
trade up their places. Could universities like yours lose out | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
because of that? Potential lady could do. This system called | :05:57. | :06:05. | |
adjustment. You can reject your offer and go into clearing to seek | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
another one. The activity is very tiny with this. If you think of | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
yourself as an applicant, you have applied somewhere, you have done | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
better but you still have your offer, you have already made an | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
emotional attachment to that place and you think, I want to go there | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
and know that they have the offer more students stay with that because | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
it gives them the certainty on this busy and rather stressful day for | :06:30. | :06:38. | |
many students. Now, we have not lost out to adjustment very much. I | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
expect it will be a rather small proportion of the clearing business, | :06:45. | :06:52. | |
as it was last year. A widow told Look East today that | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
it's a disgrace that different parts of the NHS are not able to share | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
vital information about patients out of hours. Six weeks ago Bill | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
Detterding was admitted to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, but | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
when the doctors tried to access his GP records in Holt, they couldn't do | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
it. He was given aspirin, although his records would have told them he | :07:09. | :07:18. | |
was allergic to it. They were married for 15 seven years | :07:18. | :07:33. | |
—— 57 years, but Bill died last year. But what angered his family | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
was that doctors could not access his medical records over a bank | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
holiday. You'll mac it is appalling. They were trying, but they could | :07:42. | :07:49. | |
not. He had a blocked artery, but before surgeons could operate he | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
suffered a stroke. His family says that he received exemplary care, but | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
for several days doctors could not see his notes, including his allergy | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
to aspirin and do not resuscitate notice. she does have some valid | :08:03. | :08:12. | |
concerns and we would actively encourage anything that encourages a | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
safe and secure sharing of information. Solveig has that not | :08:18. | :08:25. | |
happened? —— so fly has that not happened? This system promised to | :08:25. | :08:35. | |
connect 30,000 GPs. But by 2006 it was in disarray. The project was | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
scrapped in 2011 at a cost of £2.7 billion. | :08:39. | :08:46. | |
There is a clear plan now to have a paperless NHS by 2018. We want to | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
make a significant amount of progress before that. We want to | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
create an IT fund which local hospitals can bid for. Build—out | :08:56. | :09:03. | |
peacefully in a local hospital with his family at his side. —— will | :09:03. | :09:15. | |
hide. Lifeguards on our beaches have | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
rescued 21 people in the past six days. They say that without their | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
help four of those would certainly have died. Richard Daniel has spent | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
the day on the beach in Clacton, with four children were rescued | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
yesterday. Over the years, this lifeguard has | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
saved many lives. The latest, just yesterday. He spotted for people in | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
trouble. I could see the four people in the water trying to get | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
themselves back in. I knew that they were going to get in trouble because | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
of the state of the tide. I gave a quick call to the office who were | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
already on the case. Another couple of minutes and we could have been | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
talking a different story. They pulled a 15—year—old boy and a | :10:00. | :10:05. | |
16—year—old girl to safety. The colleague used a rescue boat to see | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
—— save a 12—year—old boy and a girl, with seconds to spare. The mac | :10:11. | :10:17. | |
if I was ten seconds later then he would have been under and possibly | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
not alive. The younger one, I flew out to help him but he was still not | :10:22. | :10:28. | |
a strong swimmer. As we work filming, —— as we were filming there | :10:28. | :10:36. | |
was another alert. You can still feel the beach underneath, you only | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
have to walk so far endured out of your depth again. They were lucky. | :10:40. | :10:48. | |
It is almost four years to the day that I young girl died paddling in | :10:48. | :11:02. | |
the same breakwater. And at Cromer yesterday afternoon lifeguard saved | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
an eight—year—old boy. He had been swept out to sea by a rip currents. | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
Back at Clacton, beach patrol see that people must seek advice if in | :11:12. | :11:19. | |
doubt. It was a bit scary, but the canoe went out and got them. People | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
go on boats and see that they cannot swim. I would not dare let anyone on | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
a boat if they said that they could not swim. the message from | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
lifeguards is follow safety advice and respect the power of the sea. | :11:35. | :11:45. | |
A woman whose body was found in a lake at the University of East | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
Anglia has been named. 43—year—old Nomeda Pundziene came | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
from Lithuania but had been living in Norwich. Her body was found on | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
August first. Her death is being treated as unexplained. | :11:54. | :12:00. | |
Inspectors have been visiting the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King 's | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
Lynn. Representatives from NHS England, the Care Quality Commission | :12:03. | :12:17. | |
and the local watchdogs say that they need to deal with staff | :12:17. | :12:24. | |
shortages. A clamp—down on knives in Clacton | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
seems to have paid off. In the three months to July there were more than | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
30 reported knife—point robberies. Extra police were drafted in and no | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
similar robberies have been reported for the last month. | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
Still to come: Another disappointing day for our athletes in Moscow. | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
And invariably test state of the art dummies helping to train our flying | :12:39. | :12:45. | |
medics. The news is all about those A—level | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
results today, but exams, particularly English language exams | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
for foreign students, are big business in our region. | :12:53. | :12:59. | |
Tonight in our series looking at companies which export, we look at | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
the work of Cambridge English Language Assessment, which has been | :13:02. | :13:03. | |
doing business for 100 years. Dr written in Cambridge, printed in | :13:04. | :13:17. | |
Cambridge, but these exam papers will be taken by students in 180 | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
different countries. The company that produces them is part of | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
Cambridge University, recognised the world over. it is very well | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
recognised because Cambridge University is one of the top five | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
recognised brands in the world. That has helped this business grow. It | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
has been exporting exams for over 100 years. The attention. This is | :13:43. | :13:50. | |
the first exam paper that was set back in 1913. Among the tasks they | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
had two hours to write an essay on subjects which include the effects | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
of political movements on 19th—century literature in England. | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
But here are just three candidates sat the exam. Not one of them | :14:03. | :14:11. | |
passed. 100 years later they now use computer—based tests as well. But | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
when you sell to the world, you need to be able to speak to the world as | :14:15. | :14:28. | |
well. The mac ——. we offer support in other languages as well. the | :14:28. | :14:35. | |
employee around 400 people. Jobs that depend on exporting success. | :14:35. | :14:42. | |
Dr Mike Milanovic is the Chief Executive of the unit. When I spoke | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
to him earlier and I asked him how the unit came into being. Originally | :14:46. | :14:54. | |
it got involved as part of a programme for a teacher of modern | :14:54. | :15:04. | |
languages. It has now grown in scale. Those exams 100 years ago are | :15:04. | :15:13. | |
very different from today 's. Pretty different. The exam 100 years ago | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
took over 12 hours to do. And there was only one exam. We are talking | :15:19. | :15:30. | |
this week about exporting. You are exporting knowledge and | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
examinations. Where does the money from that go? the money that we make | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
from exams gets invested again in our business. We are part of a | :15:38. | :15:45. | |
group, Cambridge Assessment. So some of that money will go back into the | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
university, to support that work, which in turn supports us. how | :15:50. | :15:55. | |
important is it to have the words Cambridge University on it? it is | :15:55. | :16:01. | |
really important, it is one of the leading universities in the world. | :16:01. | :16:04. | |
The quality that it represents underpins the work that we do as | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
well. Everything that we do must reflect the same quality standards | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
as are achieved in the University. At the moment I know you reach into | :16:14. | :16:21. | |
130 countries. Either more that you are waiting to move into? English is | :16:21. | :16:28. | |
so important that although we are in more than 100 and 30 countries now, | :16:28. | :16:36. | |
I am sure we will eventually be present in almost every country in | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
the world. The developing nations and the fast—growing economies, | :16:40. | :16:47. | |
China, India, countries like that are very, very interested in English | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
language and an English—language qualifications. A lot of our growth | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
and development over the last decade has come from countries like that. | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
But it is equally true in Europe that, as the European policy of | :17:00. | :17:06. | |
mother tongue plus two languages spread around Europe, English is | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
very important and that context as well. Hundreds of thousands of | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
children are doing our exams in Spain and Italy and France. | :17:15. | :17:23. | |
A 12 hour exam! It puts those A—levels into perspective. | :17:23. | :17:30. | |
If you have a serious accident or if you are taken seriously ill you want | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
the best care around you want it fast. For more than 40 years, MAGPAS | :17:34. | :17:40. | |
has been playing a vital role in providing just that. | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
At the moment the Cambridgeshire—based charity provide | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
critical care cover 18 hours a day. But soon they will be working 24/7. | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
They have a new training scheme to help provide more paramedics and a | :17:48. | :17:56. | |
new helicopter. Landing close to the new Magpas | :17:56. | :18:02. | |
training centre in Huntingdon, the new orange Explorer. On the board, | :18:02. | :18:09. | |
next Foster, the first doctor in the UK to specialise in prehospital | :18:09. | :18:22. | |
emergency medicine. It has now been recognised as a subspecialty, like | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
gynaecology or paediatrics. They have approved a curricular minute | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
and standardise training has started. | :18:30. | :18:36. | |
Magpas also claim a first, with this new training scheme. Already a | :18:36. | :18:42. | |
paramedic, Chris is giving up his time to complete the course, which | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
will allow him to volunteer with the team. Made any mistakes? yes. We are | :18:45. | :18:54. | |
learning from previous mistakes that have been made. This is the place to | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
make mistakes. the doctors and paramedics work on a series of | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
highly realistic scenarios. Chris and his team are trying to save the | :19:03. | :19:14. | |
life of boys hit by a car. —— a boy. it is nice to be tested. We get hot | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
and bothered and a bit stressed but it is well worth it. We sedated the | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
child initially to maintain his earwig, gain control of his pain. | :19:23. | :19:36. | |
#. Using a rapid response vehicle, | :19:36. | :19:46. | |
Magpas do several runs a day. All of this is designed to help people who | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
need critical care before they get to hospital. As a result, saving | :19:49. | :19:57. | |
lives. It has been a tough day for our | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
athletes at the World Championships in Moscow. This morning it was | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
18—year—old Jessica Judd from Essex. This afternoon it was the high | :20:07. | :20:13. | |
jumper Robbie Grabarz from St Neots. Jessica Field to qualify for | :20:13. | :20:19. | |
the 800 metres final. And Robbie Grabarz missed out on a medal as | :20:19. | :20:27. | |
well. It has not been a happy World | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
Championships for either Greg Rutherford yesterday Robbie Grabarz | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
today. Robbie actually spent his formative years training year at the | :20:36. | :20:42. | |
Bedford athletic Stadium, but today two metres 29 centimetres was not | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
quite good enough. It was won by a Ukrainian athlete. He just missed | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
out on a world record, in fact. That is how high—quality it was today. | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
Behind me you can see the sprinters erect Bedford County athletics club. | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
Nigel Levine has still got a chance of winning a medal. He started he | :21:03. | :21:12. | |
read Bedford as well. But Robbie Grabarz, like Greg, it just was not | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
his day to day. They gathered to see if one of their | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
own kid when Britain another priceless medal. Robbie Grabarz | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
spent years at Bedford County athletics club. It has been a | :21:25. | :21:34. | |
difficult year for him after the Olympics, but provided that he gets | :21:34. | :21:40. | |
his act together now he is in with a chance. What do you think, is he | :21:40. | :21:47. | |
going to be lucky today? yes, I think so. Bronze medal, I'm | :21:47. | :21:55. | |
guessing. Robbie ran into trouble at two | :21:55. | :22:05. | |
metres and 29 centimetres. He cleared it on the next attempt | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
but it was last chance win at two metres and 32 centimetres after two | :22:10. | :22:22. | |
failures. Two metres 29 centimetres was good | :22:22. | :22:27. | |
enough for Bobby to win bronze last year. One year and the bar has been | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
raised higher and Robbie could not make it over. The high jump | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
collective stayed to watch the rest of the high—class competition. | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
Earlier and another of Bedford 's finest, Nigel Levine, was rescued as | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
his relay team—mates qualified for the final. But disappointment for | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
Jessica Judd who failed to reach the final. A—level results wait at home | :22:52. | :23:03. | |
for her, hopefully what is inside will be less of a disappointment. I | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
am so disappointed, so many people have worked hard to get your. I | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
thought I was going to do it and then my legs just went, but maybe | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
that is something the site had lost. I am just so happy to be here in one | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
piece and I wanted so much more than that. | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
Not the best day for our region 's athletes but Jess and Robbie will | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
both be back. Robbie presented the award tear at | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
the ceremony last year, so he will certainly be back at Bedford. We | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
have the young high jumpers at Bedford going through their paces | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
now. One or two of them have actually broken his records that he | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
set your all those years ago. This is their head coach. You know Robbie | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
and his mum very well, how disappointed I you today? Very | :23:53. | :24:01. | |
disappointed. He was expected to get towards the medals, we know that he | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
had a problem with his knee, but we expected him to get through. He did | :24:05. | :24:12. | |
look impressive up until the 229. It was sad that he did not get into the | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
top. he will be back, that's for sure. You have some talent year. | :24:18. | :24:27. | |
Quite a bit of talent. This girl is new to it, one for the future. This | :24:27. | :24:35. | |
is my son. He is 12. He broke Robbie 's under 13 record 13 years to the | :24:35. | :24:44. | |
day the other week. A lot of talent here. We hope to see 12 of these at | :24:44. | :24:57. | |
the stage that Robbie has. my eldest son has broken Robbie 's under 17 | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
record year. He went to the World Championships and got a personal | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
best. Your dynasty is certainly doing well year. Sadly for Robbie, | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
not the case today. And time for the weather. | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
Some very changeable weather conditions today. The pressure at | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
the moment is more like what you would expect in the autumn. At the | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
moment there is a mass of rain out to the West working. That will be | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
with us into the early hours of tomorrow morning. Today we have had | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
that perfect combination of humidity, warmth and sunshine. That | :25:36. | :25:43. | |
has triggered showers. Pretty much anywhere is at risk of catching a | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
sharp shower before the end of the evening. The first part of the night | :25:46. | :25:53. | |
looks quite drivers clear spells. It can quickly turn cloudy. Much of | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
this rain expected to arrive overnight. Quite a good soaking in | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
places which may well be welcome for gardens and fields. In terms of | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
temperatures once more and mild night. A moderate wind, still | :26:07. | :26:17. | |
breezy. That weather front will take its time clearing tomorrow, so for | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
the Eastern half it will be sticking around, bringing us these cloudy | :26:22. | :26:25. | |
conditions and a wet start pretty much everywhere. It will gladly | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
clearer way and at the end of the day we will see something a bit | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
brighter, especially across the western half. Some rain, but not | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
raining all of the time. A lot of cloud left a class this Eastern | :26:38. | :26:48. | |
half. —— across. The temperatures could shoot up if we start to see | :26:48. | :26:54. | |
some sunshine. We could see one to sharp showers into the evening where | :26:54. | :26:56. | |
afternoon and they could turn thundery. | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
This is not going to spoil the day froze because the rain is not | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
expected to arrive until the evening. Much of Saturday looks dry. | :27:04. | :27:16. | |
Brighter spells perhaps to start with but turning increasingly | :27:16. | :27:18. | |
cloudy. Outbreaks of heavy rain, strong winds and gusts in excess of | :27:18. | :27:27. | |
30 mph. We have some blustery, westerly winds for Sunday and | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
Monday. That could mean some showers. Overnight lows here and a | :27:30. | :27:39. | |
quick barometer cheque for you. That is all from us. Have a great | :27:39. | :27:40. | |
evening. | :27:40. | :27:42. |