 Welsh politics
The BBC has been accused of keeping people in the dark about Welsh politics after it emerged that none of the next 14 episodes of Question Time will be filmed here.
All episodes will be filmed in England, apart from one which will be filmed in Scotland.
It comes after the Welsh Assembly’s Presiding Officer, Elin Jones, wrote to the BBC yesterday asking why a key vote in the Assembly was barely covered by their news services.
A vote by the Scottish Parliament to reject Theresa May’s Brexit deal was given greater prominence while the same vote in the Welsh Assembly was almost ignored, she said.
Writing to BBC Wales director Rhodri Talfan Davies and director general Tony Hall, she said:.”
Responding to the news that Question Time would not be visiting Wales, Plaid Cymru MP Ben Lake said they were perpetuating a democratic deficit in Wales.
“Sadly we cannot expect anything less from a media that struggles represent anything outside the M25,” he said.
“Welsh life and politics continue to be an afterthought to the BBC. This is not just about a fair showing for all the nations, but a healthy democracy.
“Without a representative media, people are being deprived of the tools to understand and hold to account the politicians they elect.
“Love it or loathe it, BBC Question Time plays an important part in the news agenda. By failing to have a single show in Wales they are perpetuating a democratic deficit.
“A new chair was an opportunity for a change of direction. Disappointingly, it looks like the London-centric media will continue to ignore the voices of the nations.
“If the BBC is to live up to its mantle of the national broadcaster, it must represent all of the nations.”
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For the price of a cup of coffee a month you can help us create an independent, not-for-profit, national news service for the people of Wales, by the people of Wales.A high-profile hire announced Tuesday by Old Dominion University has raised questions about the possibility of a formal merger with Eastern Virginia Medical School, although statements from the two Hampton Roads educational institutions say it’s “premature” to respond to questions about the prospect.
Dr. Alicia Monroe will join ODU in a few weeks as chief integration officer and senior advisor to President Brian O. Hemphill to establish an academic health sciences center in partnership with EVMS and Sentara Healthcare, the university announced Tuesday. The position will be in place for two years, and Monroe, who most recently served as provost and senior vice president of academic and faculty affairs at Baylor College of Medicine in Texas, will start Sept. 6, according to ODU.
An employee of ODU with an annual salary of $425,000, Monroe will have an office with at least two full-time employees, and she will also serve as an untenured professor in the School of Community and Environmental Health, pending approval by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) of the School of Public Health, an ODU spokesman told Virginia Business.
“[Monroe’s] expertise and leadership will be critical in providing needed direction and support to the integration management office across all facets of our planning and implementation efforts. This is a significant step forward in providing a robust framework and necessary resources for addressing our region’s health disparities,” Hemphill said in a statement Tuesday.
A “joint response” by ODU and EVMS to questions sent by Virginia Business on Tuesday indicates that an agreement to merge the two institutions is not set and is in fact part of the task facing Monroe and her team over the next two years. “It is premature to respond to the question, ‘Is EVMS becoming an arm of ODU?'” spokesman Joseph T. Garvey responded by email. Monroe’s contract ends in two years, he added.
Hemphill’s letter lays out recent plans that have been in the works between the two institutions, which signed an agreement with Sentara to create a health center and are partnering with Norfolk State University to create a School of Public Health.
“In recent months, cross-functional teams, including both ODU and EVMS officials have been working to develop strategies,” Hemphill wrote. Further down, he wrote that nine functional teams are being formed further explore areas including accreditation and faculty affairs, clinical affairs and medical group, communications and branding, development and philanthropy, enrollment management and student affairs and others.
A website, www.odu.edu/exploration, will be updated in coming months, Hemphill wrote.
These agreements are in addition to other regional health initiatives EVMS and ODU are part of. In January 2021, Sentara announced a $10 million investment split between ODU, NSU, EVMS and other organizations in Hampton, Newport News, Williamsburg and Suffolk. ODU and NSU each received $2 million to support the development of the School of Public Health, and another $3 million went to ODU, EVMS and NSU for public health and health equity initiatives. The remaining $3 million went to community organizations to address underserved communities. Sentara also donated $2 million to EVMS to support the development of the School of Public Health. In May, Sentara established two new collaborative grants at ODU, EVMS and NSU for collaboration among the three institutions, along with Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters, to decrease health disparities in underserved communities.
One point ODU officials emphasize every time another partnership between the university and EVMS is announced, including in the news release announcing Monroe’s hire, is the decades-long relationship between the institutions.
EVMS appointed Dr. Alfred Abuhamad from interim head to permanent president, provost and dean in June.
The two schools are “currently exploring ways to strengthen health-focused academic program offerings, world-class research in both existing and new specialty areas, and state-of-the-art clinical care, as well as expand the workforce pipeline for needed health care workers,” Garvey wrote in response to questions from Virginia Business.
Repeating a legacy?
One of Hemphill’s legacies at Radford University, where he served as president for five years, is a 2019 merger between the Jefferson College of Health Sciences and Carilion Clinic to create Radford University Carilion. The merger made Radford’s nursing program the second-largest in Virginia and 22% of Radford’s students are pursuing a degree in a health-related field.
For an April 2021 Virginia Business story, Kay Kemper, former rector of ODU’s board of visitors, commented on the possibility of history repeating itself as Hemphill left Radford to become ODU’s president last year.
Editor’s note: The story has been clarified to show that EVMS appointed Dr. Alfred Abuhamad from interim to permanent president, provost and dean.
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