Falmouth journalism students join world experts on Climate Change debate
Monday, 21 December 2009
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As the United Nations Conference on climate change got underway, postgraduate journalism students from University College Falmouth (UCF) took part in a major broadcasting event at the Eden Project with the BBC World Service.
Eden was the setting for a recording of the World Service's One Planet programme that brought together climate experts from across the world as well as the United Nations' Copenhagen Conference climate change negotiator, Ivo De Boer. Also taking part were executive director of Greenpeace, John Sauven; Greater China Director of the Climate Group, Changhua Wu; and President Nasheed of the Maldives as well as Eden's influential chief executive, Tim Smit.
Students on UCF's MA in International Journalism were invited to interview Tim Smit and the BBC production team responsible for the programme, which posed questions on how effective the Copenhagen Conference was likely to be.
The students also contributed to a section of the programme that revealed people's guilty secrets about their impact on global warming.
"It was great using the skills we had learned to interview really important people," said one of the journalism students, Zoe Graham. "It made me feel like a real radio journalist working alongside the BBC team."
MA International Journalism Course Leader, George Matheson, added that it was an incredibly useful day for the students. "This was real journalism and programme making, and gave the students access to some of the world's most significant newsmakers on an assignment with truly global impact."
To hear the BBC's One Planet programme from Eden and for more information go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003r6j3
For further information about MA International Journalism at University College Falmouth, visit www.falmouth.ac.uk/internationaljournalism, email admissions@falmouth.ac.uk or telephone Admissions on 01326 213661.
University College Falmouth is the only independent Higher Education institution in Cornwall with the powers to award degrees in its own name. It has two campuses in Cornwall - at Woodlane in Falmouth and Tremough in Penryn (which it owns, and jointly manages with the University of Exeter) - and a third campus at Totnes in Devon, following its merger with Dartington College of Arts in 2008.
This merger created a new institution focusing on the expansion of Falmouth's expertise in Art, Design and Media and Dartington's expertise in Choreography, Music, Theatre, Art and Writing. The Devon-based courses will relocate to a new, high-specification Performance Centre at Tremough in 2010, paving the way for a new specialist Arts University in Cornwall by 2012/2013 that will be unique to the South West.
The College is a founding partner in the Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC), a unique initiative to promote regional economic regeneration through Higher Education, funded mainly by the European Union (Objective One and Convergence), the South West Regional Development Agency, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England, with support from Cornwall Council.
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