Skillset s work with FE & HE
What is Skillset? the Sector Skills Council for the creative media industries a body funded by the government and a levy on media companies purpose to ensure there are the right people with the right skills in the right place to keep the UK at the forefront of creative work responsible for film, broadcasting, production companies, radio, TV, advertising, computer games, animation, publishing, screenwriting etc
Where did we start from?
Accredited Courses Animation Computer Games Screenwriting Film Production VFX
Accredited Courses Criteria
Accredited Courses: Animation Bournemouth Arts Institute BA (Hons) Animation Production Bournemouth University BA (Hons) Computer Visualisation and Animation Glamorgan Centre for Art & Design HND in Art & Design (Computer Animation) / BA Hons Animation Newport, University of Wales BA (Hons) Animation National Film and Television School MA Animation Direction Farnham University College for the Creative Arts BA (Hons) Animation University of Teesside BA (Hons) Computer Animation Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication FdA Computer Visualisation and Animation BA (Hons) Animation
Screen Academies Centres of excellence for high quality film industry vocational training Established by Skillset & the UK Film Council Recently re-licensed Funded by UKFC via the Lottery
Screen Academies Edinburgh Skillset Screen and Media Academy NFTS, A Skillset Screen and Media Academy The London Film School Skillset Screen Academy
Skillset Media Academies focus on TV & interactive media with radio, animation, scriptwriting, journalism etc support the creative industries though the provision of CPD (continuing professional development), foundation degree internships, research into cutting-edge issues and technologies, and business development services 17 English HEIs + 4 Scottish, 1Welsh, & 1 NI
Skillset Media Academies Criteria
Skillset Media Academies 1. Abertay Skillset Media Academy, Dundee 2. Birmingham City University Skillset Media Academy 3. Bournemouth Skillset Media Academy 4. Central Saint Martins Skillset Media Academy, London 5. Cornwall Skillset Media Academy, Falmouth 6. Creative Loop Skillset Media Academy, Scotland 7. Goldsmiths, University of London Skillset Media Academy 8. Hertfordshire Skillset Media Academy, Hatfield 9. Liverpool John Moores Skillset Media Academy 10. Middlesex Skillset Media Academy 11. Edinburgh Skillset Screen and Media Academy 12. NFTS Skillset Film and Media Academy, Beaconsfield 13. Northern Ireland Skillset Media Academy, Coleraine 14. North by Southwest: The Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Skillset Media Academy, Cheltenham 15. Nottingham Skillset Media Academy 16. Ravensbourne Skillset Media Academy, London 17. Salford University Skillset Media Academy 18. Skillset Media Academy Wales, Cardiff 19. Southampton Solent Skillset Media Academy 20. Teesside University Skillset Media Academy, Middlesbrough 21. University of the West of Scotland Skillset Media Academy 22. Westminster Skillset Media Academy 23. Yorkshire and Humber Skillset Media Academy, Bradford
Map of Media Academies Abertay Skillset Media Academy Creative Loop Skillset Media Academy Northern Ireland Skillset Media Academy Salford University Skillset Media Academy Liverpool John Moores Skillset Media Academy Birmingham City University Skillset Media Academy North by Southwest: The Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Skillset Media Academy Skillset Media Academy Wales Cornwall Skillset Media Academy Bournemouth Skillset Media Academy Edinburgh Skillset Screen and Media Academy Teesside University Skillset Media Academy Yorkshire and Humber Skillset Media Academy Nottingham Skillset Media Academy Hertfordshire Skillset Media Academy Central Saint Martins Skillset Media Academy Goldsmiths, University of London Skillset Media Academy Middlesex Skillset Media Academy NFTS Skillset Film & Media Academy Ravensbourne Skillset Media Academy Westminster Skillset Media Academy Southampton Solent Skillset Media Academy
Media Academies Showreel
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Skillset Academies HEFCE Projects Credit-bearing short courses Build Your Own MA Foundation Degrees Internships Management & leadership MA Knowledge Transfer Projects
Credit-Bearing Short Courses Build Your Own MA Programme of credit-bearing short courses, with recognised credit transfer between Media Academy members, including accredited existing industry craft training programmes. Aims: Integrated with work, home, leisure Anywhere/ anytime study Seamless progression Work-based learning Intensive F2F & distance delivery (6 / 7 weeks online learning) Incorporates specialist partners and guest masterclasses Work towards qualification: PG Certificate / PG Diploma / MA Professional Media Practice
Credit-Bearing Short Courses Build Your Own MA Where we are now A Skillset Build Your Own MA database of credit bearing short courses www.skillset.org/build Over 75 courses with a range of industry collaboration from the BBC, Sony Games, the Media Guardian and Illumina Digital
Foundation Degrees Interns
2 Year BA/ FD Internships How this fits with employer needs industry collaborates on development & delivery of relevant course content, thus ensuring relevance targeting skills shortage areas Why this will benefit employers? able to recruit the student once qualified employer gains employee with relevant skills in a shortage area
Other Academy Projects Creative Media Leaders Programme Knowledge Transfer Parnerships
Creative Media Leaders Programme a new Creative Media Leadership Certificate, a postgraduate qualification aimed at rising stars in the creative media sector particpants undertake, and successfully pass, at least one unit from each of the three pools of courses, namely - Leadership, Implementation and Strategy.
Knowledge Transfer Exchanges Technological convergence.creating new platforms, devices and channels and consequently, demand for more and different content, products and services and the skills to develop them Growing digitisation. demand for increasingly sophisticated knowledge and skills Globalisation creating new business opportunities but also addressing new threats, including increased competition, and the outsourcing of many roles to cheaper labour markets. New industrial structures across the creative media industries.which lead both to proliferation and consolidation as well as an increasingly fluid and mobile workforce, Threats to intellectual property piracy and illegal downloading threatening the security and competitiveness of many companies.
Summary of Current Position Skillset s work in HE includes: The Skillset Academy Network: - Media, Film, and Craft & Technical** Academies Accredited courses: - Computer Games, Animation, Screenwriting, VFX, Film Production Project HEFCE: - Build Your Own MA, BA/FD Internships, MA Creative Leadership, and KTPs
Where next? Extend course accreditation? Re-define Media Academies and invite new applications?