Now washington journals interview with Michigan State University President lou anna simon, she talks about priorities for the university and Higher Education moving forward. Its part of our special series on universities in the big ten conference. This is 35 minutes. The cou cspan bus has been on a tour of the big ten colleges across the country for the past few weeks and along the way here on the washington journal, we haver been talking withni university t president s aboutat Higher Education issues, the point is e cspan bus is on the campus of on Michigan State university, in east lansing, michigan, joining us aboard the bus, is lou anna si simon. Let me get started rightti away with the challenges that you see in Higher Education. Value good morning, and its a y. Beautiful day in east lansing ge so the promise of Higher Education creating not 1i6rle a job, but a terrific life. And one of our challenges is always to be sure that we work in a way to be as Cost Effective and relevant
This is bbc news, with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. Theres been a steep rise in gcse grades in england, wales and Northern Ireland pupils have been receiving them after a uk government u turn means marks are now based on teacher assessments. Meanwhile, chaos for hundreds of thousands of pupils as btec students are told they wont get their marks, just hours before they were due to be published. We are working very closely with ucas, with the independent regulator and the exam boards to make sure no young person is disadvantaged as a consequence of this delay. The russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny is unconscious in hospital with suspected poisoning. The Anti Corruption campaigner fell ill during a flight. Kamala harris is formally nominated as joe bidens running
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Making our commitment to israel perfectly clear. We love and respect israel and i send your people the warmest greetings from your friend and ally, all of the people in the United States of america. We are with you. John roberts has traveled from riyadh to jerusalem and joins us now live. John. With a stop in cyprus. You arent allowed to fly directly from saudi arabia into israel. Trump arrives amid Great Expectations and currently touring one of the most holy sites in christianity the church of the holy sepulchre and then the western wall where he will say a prayer and tuck the prayer between the slabs of rock as so many people who come to visit the western wall do. This morning upon his arrival at the airport, a very, very warm welcome from the israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The saudis set a very high bar in terms of president ial welcomes. When the president came here to the region on saturday morning, a real royal welcome when king salman came to the airport to greet hi
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