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London (pte025/09.02.2005/11:30) - A new TV channel has been launched in the UK to help train teachers. As the Media Guardian http://www.mediaguardian.co.uk reports, Teachers' TV is the UK's first government-funded, public service channel and is billed as an on-the-job training tool and window allowing teachers to see "warts and all" what is happening in classrooms. The channel, funded by government money but editorially independent, will absorb 20 million pounds (29 million euros) of taxpayers' money each year.
Over 500 teachers have been filmed at work for the first set of programmes, which are designed to help teachers plan lessons and develop their work. The station will broadcast weekly education news and current affairs, as well as professional advice and curriculum-based programmes. Each 15-minute programme, within a one-hour cycle, will be shown 18 times over a three-week period. 12 production companies have been involved in its production thus far.
"It's good that digital is being used for something other than porn and sport," said Bob Geldof, who was one of the investors in the project. Geldof is a director of TenAlps, a shareholder in Brook Lapping Productions, part of the consortium running the station. According to Nigel Dacre, chief executive of Education Digitial, which runs Teachers' TV, the new channel would provide "ideas and inspiration." Schools minister Stephen Twigg said the channel, another step towards ensuring full use of digital technology, would help raise standards in the classroom.
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