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| about
UK FUTURE TV |
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| NARROW
WEBSITE |
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website is narrow so that people can watch programmes on windows media player whilst surfing through our
programme listings at the same time. |
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| CAREERS |
| On
UK Future TV you can find out about a wide range of
careers. In each of our programmes the participants
describe how their careers progressed and developed plus
the decisions and dilemmas they faced. |
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talk about what first inspired them to go into that field
plus the good and the bad aspects of their careers. They
also describe the changes and trends in their field and
what they think the career will offer in future years. |
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| STUDY
CHOICES |
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now have programmes about most of the subjects that can be
studied at university. Traditional favourites like law and
medicine. New fields such as nanotechnology and
biomimetics plus popular courses such as psychology and
media studies. |
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| RESEARCH |
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cover research work in social sciences and the environment
as well as science and technology. Research carried today
will not only affect our daily lives in the future but may
well shape the careers of people working in the relevant
industries. |
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| ENTERPRISE |
| People
who have started businesses describe where there ideas
came from and how they built up their enterprises. The
aspects that worked well plus a few things that were not
so successful. |
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| AUDIENCE |
| Our
channel is already well known in the academic world
through our e-mail marketing. Many of our participants
promote the link to their video on their own web pages,
e-mails and documents. This brings in an audience from
across the world. |
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e-mail marketing now extends to schools and careers
advisers. Our site is featured on various online video
listings sites and we also receive traffic through
internet search
engines. |
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| OUR
HISTORY |
| We
started in Spring 2007 and have been steadily building up
our programme catalogue. |
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have interviewed academics from the
following universities : Bristol, Brunel, Nottingham,
Sunderland, Sheffield, Edinburgh, Warwick, Durham, Leicester,
Oxford Brookes, Bath, Surrey, Sussex, Cardiff, Liverpool Hope
and Liverpool John Moores. |
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have also interviewed entrepreneurs from the Cambridge Science Park and
Sheffield Technology Park plus health
professionals across the UK. |
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| FUNDING |
| Many
of our programmes featuring academics and entrepreneurs are paid
for by private benefactors who support the aims of our channel.
Other programmes are paid for by the participants. As
our channel develops we will also be running programmes
sponsored by commercial companies. |
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| TECHNICAL
NOTES |
| All
our videos are windows media (.wmv) files streaming at 700 or
1,000 kbps.
They should run without problems over any recent home broadband
connection. Many office connections are fast enough but video use
can be restricted by IT departments. |
| If
the video keeps stopping and buffering then your connection is too
slow. You can however right click any video and “save target
as” to download the video to your computer regardless of the
connection speed you have available. |
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