EU'll be vaccinated
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
The AstraZeneca vaccine has been signed off by the EU today, but there's still a row about when they'll get their doses. Fergus and Vicki join Adam to make sense of the latest, as the bloc threatens to restrict vaccines crossing the border to Northern Ireland - overriding part of the Brexit deal.
Also, are you sleeping well? If not - Dr Guy Meadows has some great advice for you.
Studio Director: Emma Crowe Producers: Jack Suddaby, Daniel Wittenberg, Kameron Virk, Rick Kelsey, Georgia Coan Episode Editor: Ben Weisz Assistant Editor: Sam Bonham Editor: Dino Sofos
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, we've had quite a lot of feedback about that report we did the other day about students, |
| 0:10.3 | and quite a lot of it has come from lecturers and university staff and I thought I'd read |
| 0:15.4 | out an email that's quite typical. |
| 0:17.7 | Hello Adam and Coe, I should preface this by stating my personal beliefs are that nobody should pay any university fees, but unfortunately we do. |
| 0:27.0 | I absolutely agree students aren't having a great time, but the narrative around refunds serves to further turn degrees into something |
| 0:35.7 | that you buy. |
| 0:37.4 | Every student had the chance to defer, and my university has an extenuating circumstances policy that hardly any students have taken up. |
| 0:46.6 | The value for money in your degree isn't the amount of time you spend in a lecture, but the |
| 0:51.3 | access to expert knowledge, which is still there. This year has been |
| 0:56.6 | horrible we've all missed out on a lot. I'm certainly bitter that I've finished my PhD alone |
| 1:02.0 | and over a video call, but ultimately if your degree can be taught in a video, |
| 1:06.7 | it's absolutely the right thing to do at the moment. These videos are being put together by incredibly hard-working, brackets overworked, highly skilled |
| 1:15.1 | staff who give your degree its reputation. |
| 1:18.9 | So yes, be angry, but please be mindful that by demanding refunds and talking about value for money, |
| 1:24.1 | you are kicking some very down academics. And I promise we will come back to this |
| 1:30.4 | perspective on this subject very soon. |
| 1:34.0 | Now on with this edition of Newscast. |
| 1:36.7 | Newscast. |
| 1:37.6 | Newsscast from the BBC. |
| 1:39.2 | What is this virus? |
| 1:40.5 | How does it spread? |
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