University Challenged

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Today, thousands of students receive their results from A-level, T-level, BTec Nationals and other Level 3 qualifications.

Adam is opening Newscast University for one day only!

He’s joined by BBC education editor Branwen Jeffreys, who tells us what today’s results reveal about the state of higher education in the UK.

And the World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared an mpox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern. Dr Rosamund Lewis, the technical lead for mpox at the WHO, explains how the virus has spread, and why its been declared an ‘emergency’.

You can now listen to Newscast on a smart speaker. If you want to listen, just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Newscast”. It works on most smart speakers. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Miranda Slade and Sam Mclaren. The technical producer was Jeremy Morgan. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.7	Hello and thank you as always to James Cook, my podcasting twin brother,
0:09.3	who's actually three years older,
0:10.8	for keeping the seat warm while I had a day off. Today we are
0:15.2	officially opening for one day only and it's not giving any degrees or any
0:19.0	tuition the newscast university because the big story is about the A-Level results in England, Wales,
0:25.6	and Northern Ireland, but actually the story has really been about what is happening with
0:31.0	British universities as a result of the results.
0:34.4	There's also a big health story as well because of empox, so that's why we're going to visit
0:39.8	several departments in the newscast newscast from the BBC
0:46.0	the exit poll is predicting a labor landslide
0:50.0	we did it and before you know it
0:52.0	you have a bright future behind you.
0:53.7	I really don't know what he said at the end of that sentence.
0:56.0	Joe, you did such a great job, you answered every question.
0:59.6	Take me down to Downey Street. Let's go have a tour. Blimey.
1:04.0	Hello, it's Adam in the newscast studio which for one day only is going to be turned into
1:09.6	newscast university although we've just discovered you can't really have any sound effects for a university, can you?
1:15.0	I mean, what does the library sound like?
1:18.0	Yeah, that.
1:20.0	It's not like you have a bell, like a school, or a playground with children playing games and skipping.
1:26.8	So you'll just have to use your imaginations for believing that this is a newscast university.
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