Phew, what a night - 250 odd souls down in the vaults on the hottest day of the year networking their hearts out.
Yes, it’s that time of year again when students come out of their 3 year long chrysalis that is university, blinking into the lights of the onrushing animation industry. Rabbits in headlights doesn’t […]
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 […]
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 […]
Well - invitations are on their way. 1st of July is the date, and if you are an employer on the look out for talented artists and animators then this is definitely the event for you.
Didn’t get an invite?
Head over to www.skillset.org/animation/showcase to register.
Registration is for employers only as the graduates are carefully selected from our range […]
Sir Bob Geldof
Originally uploaded by
NESTA: Making Innovation Flourish
Tuesday saw the largest innovation event ever held in the UK descend on the Festival Hall. The Skillset Blog team was there (en masse) to sample proceedings. Despite a slow down in the afternoon, where the ‘expert’ seminars largely left me a bit dissapointed there were some interesting […]
All going swimmingly by all accounts, around 50 students through the doors and through the first round of pitching. We’ve had overwhelmingly positive feedback from the students with all but one indicating they enjoyed the day!
The main learning takeaways for students seem to be that they recognise the need to always have your audience in […]
Exciting times - this week Skillset has partnered with Nicktoons to launch a, frankly, brilliant competition for students on our network of industry approved degree courses.
Nicktoons, gawd bless em, have agreed to see pitches for 10 second short films from 80 (eighty, thought I needed to spell it out) students. The winning five will see […]
It’s exciting and fantastic - a whole world of questions and responses - what do you think about your industry, what are your skills needs, and, how old are you?
We’re asking all these and more of everyone in the Creative Media sector, there’ll be so much information, I’m sure we’ll struggle to find uses for […]
My hangover is now receding so it’s a good time, I think, to reflect on last nights awards. There was a lot of positive energy around the event, especially noticable for an industry that is going through a lot at the moment and having to adapt to changing conditions, less commissioning and a lot of […]
The BBC has a report on student applications indicating a 6.7% rise in applications for places on degree courses.
However the commentary largely focuses on the lack of movement on diversity levels:
The breakdown of social backgrounds shows only a slight change on 2007: 29.6% from lower groups compared with 28.9%.
They quote a Lib Dem spokesman in saying:
University […]