Last week I received an invitation to attend a ‘Cultural Diversity in Publishing’ round-table from The Bookseller.
It was billed as a discussion of the current situation with an in-depth look at why publishing is still predominantly a white, middle class industry. Pearson’s Diversity Communications Officer, Dele Fatunla, and HR Project Manager Beth Callan from Random House were […]
Blogging from the train today (thank you national express free wi-fi) and just needing to note a piece in today’s Guardian. A supplement on ‘How to Save Money’ includes a section by Tony Levine - the Guardian’s ‘consumer champion’ who remarks on the latest trend for students to demand refunds over what he describes as […]
The full line up of speakers has been announced for next week’s industry get together in Newcastle, and it’s an impressive list. I’m looking forward to these:
Laurent Malville, game content manager at Ubisoft
Emeric Thoa, lead game designer at Ubisoft
Ian Livingstone, creative director at Eidos
Charles Cecil, founder of Revolution Software
Simon Usiskin, portal director at Spill Group
Geoff […]
Still looking for a job, and the Interactive Media, Computer Games and Animation Adminstrator role didn’t tickle your fancy? Have you considered applying for the Publishing Co-ordinator vacancy that we now have?
As regular readers will realise, I’m the new kid on the block. Publishing came into Skillset’s remit at the beginning of April and we […]
Looking for a job? Think you’d be interested in working at Skillset and helping to shape the future of skills development in the UK?
Then this might be of interest…
Permanent Contract
Based in London (King’s Cross)
Salary: c. £22,000pa, plus benefits
We are looking for an Interactive Media, Computer Games and Animation Administrator to provide first class administrative and secretarial support to […]