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Glasgow Talks with Donalda MacKinnon, Director of BBC Scotland, held at the BBC’s Pacific Quay headquarters
It’s an attempt to really integrate the university into the city’s fabric. You will see avenues
running north to south, east to west”
Glasgow maintaining its position as one of the top establishments around the globe, and using its connection with the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital. To keep ahead of the times, the university requires more space for teaching and multi-disciplinary research while the programme will create an open and safe environment, giving enhanced access to the campus, promoting connections to Kelvingrove Park, while improving public access and supporting sustainability. Professor Neal Juster spoke about
the keynote new buildings, including the Learning and Teaching Hub; the Research and Innovation Hub; the Institute of Health and Wellbeing; the new Adam Smith Business School; the Engineering Building and the Arts Building, set around a new University Square. The Learning and Teaching Hub, which will enhance the modern learning experience, is due to open in September 2019, while the Research Hub on the west side of the square is earmarked for opening in July 2020.
Professor Muscatelli spoke of the
massive scale of the ambition as “the biggest single educational investment in Scotland”, the creation of two innovation zones, one at the relocated hospital delivering clinical excellence, and the cultural connectivity with the Kelvin Hall, where there will be a new Glasgow Museum for Glasgow using the university’s Hunterian Collection, the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, the Riverside Museum and the Scottish Events Campus. “I want to emphasise we are not creating a sealed unit within the West End. It’s an attempt to really integrate the university into the city’s fabric. You will see avenues running north to south, east to west, so that anybody from the West End community will feel welcome to walk through. There will be lines of sight to encourage people to come in.” While innovation is the key, it will be about drawing people and indeed businesses into the heart of the university.
BBC launch
Donalda MacKinnon, Director of BBC Scotland, (pictured above) spoke about the launch of a new TV channel for Scotland at a Glasgow Talks event, organised by the Chamber at the BBC’s Pacific Quay headquarters. The new channel is due to launch in late 2018 with a budget of £30 million, similar to the spend on BBC4. It will run from 7pm to midnight and 80 journalists are being hired. She told the gathering in
November: “The average age for the audience on BBC One is 61. We have a real job to do to try to address the fact that younger audiences are departing us significantly. They are going elsewhere for the content. Also, the ways that people are consuming content is changing.” The new channel will have a unique identity designed to be inclusive and engaging to younger people. She said. “We will want to skew slightly younger with this new channel. In look and tone it can be slightly younger. We are in the process of recruiting; we won’t just exclusively hire young people, but we also look to reflect the diversity of Scotland.”
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