Media school open

Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), Oct 4, 2003

A city university has received the keys to its new state-of-the-art pounds 9m media centre.

The building, which will form part of a centre of excellence for the arts at Sunderland University, is filled with the latest state-of-the-art equipment.

The new centre comprises 4,600 square metres of studios, workshops and edit suites, along with facilities for TV and radio production and journalism.

There are also incubator units to encourage graduates to set up their own businesses on Wearside.

The university's vice-chancellor, Professor Peter Fidler, says: "We strongly believe the new centre can act as a catalyst to help foster new job creation."