9:17am Monday 1st August 2005
By Rachel Sixsmith
MORE than 40 new video production students are joining Thames Valley University this autumn as the course proves to be a big success.
The video production degree in the university's Ealing campus is this year enrolling three times the number of students that attended the course last year after applications sky-rocketed.
Stephen Desmond, a senior lecturer at the university, said: "We have been deluged with applications."
Mr Desmond believes the increase in applications is largely due to last year's student successes.
In January, video student Fran Apprich, 25, won a top prize at the New York Festival with a film she made for a class assignment at the university.
She said: "My film was just a student film but it had imagination, which counts for more than knowledge and budget."
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