Two highly-experienced reporters have joined a university's journalism teaching department.

The Scotsman's former business editor Nick Bevens and STV's Scotland Today reporter Claire Dean will be teaching on the new MA Multimedia Journalism programme at Glasgow Caledonian University.

Nick started his career as a trainee with the Gulf Daily News, in Bahrain, and worked for a decade on various trade and industry titles in the Gulf and Asia before returning to Scotland in 1992.

His main teaching focus will be on business, international and other specialist reporting areas and from 2009 he will play a leading role in launching the university's planned MA in International Business Journalism.

Claire started her career at Radio Clyde and will be leading the programme's broadcast journalism teaching.

Programme leader Ken Garner said: "Nick brings exactly the right mix of senior industry experience for what we hope to achieve with our plans for launching the UK's first dedicated Masters degree in business journalism.

"Claire has been working with us part-time already, running undergraduate TV journalism newsdays, and making a terrific contribution to our podcasting training courses we've been running for the Herald and Times papers in Glasgow over the past year."

The university claims the new course is the first postgraduate certificate in central Scotland to offer lectures in print, radio, TV and online media.

The programme won accreditation from the National Council for the Training of Journalists in June.

There are still two open days left for any students interested in signing up for the course.

They take place on August 28 and September 11 – further details can be found at www.caledonian.ac.uk.