06/03/2007

Digital applications to traditional media skills, such as photography and sound recording, are to go on offer to students at a college of further education in Glasgow.

As part of a wholesale revamp of its media courses, North Glasgow College is to attach a digital dimension to each of its existing media studies courses.

Said Keith Baird, head of the college's Faculty of Creative and Applied Arts: "North Glasgow College has, for a long timen had an excellent reputation for courses specialising in hand skills such as fashion design, jewellery, millinery and media  capturing through sound recording, photography and television. We are aiming to provide up-to-date courses which will still provide students with the traditional, underpinning skills required to generate quality media but also the skills to digitally manipulate this media, to package it and to use it to communicate in a variety ways."

The re-drafting of the media studies curriculum coincides with the college preparing to move into new premises, being built across the road from its current site - at an estimated cost of £46 million.


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