More college music type news, and Leicester's De Montfort University will open a new £3.7 million 'Creative Technology Studio' today, featuring some of the most impressive recording and broadcast studio facilities in any UK university. Or so we're told. Including video, audio and radio production suites, recording studios and labs with broadcast and audio analysis equipment, the development promises to offer students studying media at the University with a realistic experience of a 'real life' studio environment.
Set to be officially opened by Aziz Rashid, Head of Regional and Local Programmes at BBC Midlands, the studios should strengthen DMU's reputation in this field, with Adrian Hopgood, Dean of the Faculty of Computing Sciences and Engineering, telling CMU: "The level and quality of the technology available in these studios is second to none and will ensure graduates from this University are truly equipped for careers in the broadcast and broader creative technologies sectors. Significantly, the studios offer more than the very latest, leading edge technology. They provide students with a very real world experience of how things are done in the work place. This is incredibly valuable as it is not just technology alone which drives the end result".