With Beijing just around the corner, my thoughts turn to our own time in the spotlight. One of my jobs at Skillset is to make sure that the creative media industry is competition fit to make the most of the opportunities when the greatest show on earth rolls into East London. Already some companies are […]
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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 […]
Beijing’s Olympic Games will open on Friday August 8, 2008, at 8pm local time. In the marketing and media sectors there is ferocious activity as companies race to prepare. But as Universal McCann discuss in a recent paper, in many respects this race would be happening even without the Olympics as China’s marketing infrastructure is in a big […]
As reported earlier, we have been looking at the issues facing the creative media industry through the lens of Engineering and Technologists. As a result, we are now looking for a consultant to help:
- Examine and describe the engineering needs of the different sub-sectors of the creative media industry
- Examine and describe existing Engineering qualifications […]
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 […]
Today found me at a rather grey and windswept Greenwich peninsula, in the 02 Arena (that former much-maligned “Dome”) to witness the beginnings of a new Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication.
For those of you who don’t know, Ravensbourne is one of the most important higher education institutions for the creative media industry. Today we […]
Last night saw the close of my three week online consultation with the Facilities industry into their skills issues (and hopefully solutions) . More over the coming weeks on this, but I wanted to give the headlines.
Over 200 individual responses to the survey which is a fantastic amount. Most of these came from key individuals; […]
Today we launched an online consultation into the issues and potential fixes for the Facilities sector - post, studio, ob’s, kit hire, etc. It is the first time that this important part of the media industry will focus on it’s skills - so please do take the time to give us your views. The previous […]
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 […]
First up - apologies, I totally forgot to take my camera. However, aside from that the event was great, and completely highlighted the importance of networking in the animation industry. At first the networking party really did resemble a school disco - with huddles of employers talking amongst themselves and students lining the sides of […]