By Fiona Kilkelly, on March 26th, 2008%  Today we facilitated one of our first industry engagement initiatives for the Skillset Media Academies.
It was a hastily arranged affair (harnessing BBC’s enthusiasm to meet the academy network) and with about two weeks notice we had a packed council chamber in Broadcasting House and an excellent line up of presentations from the key people driving BBCs interactive strategy ( big thanks to John Denton, Managing Editor, TV Platforms, for facilitating the event).
It was also the start of a dialogue between the Academies and the BBC to look at potential future collaborative opportunities and an opportunity to learn more about BBC’s approach to interactive content development and distribution (alongside the skills they required from the workforce in order to do so).
Richard Williams – BBC Multiplatform, Vibeke Hansen – Creative Director UXD, Ian Hunter - Managing Editor iPlayer, Jason Daponte – Managing Editor Mobile and Michael Gray – Lead Producer A&Mi were just some of the people in the line up.
Continue reading BBC bares all for Skillset Media Academies
By Triston Wallace, on March 18th, 2008% 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 heard how strong and continuing their links with industry are, how their teaching staff are well complemented by practitioners, how they never cease the dialogue with working folk – all true. They are also one of the Skillset Media Academies.
For many years they have long been producing people of calibre into the creative industries.
Continue reading The planting of a new Ravensbourne
By Triston Wallace, on March 17th, 2008% 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; leaders . . . → Read More: Hot off the press – issues facing the facilities sector
By Chris Chilton, on March 14th, 2008% 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 competition . . . → Read More: British Animation Awards
By Chris Chilton, on March 12th, 2008% Book now! Hurry!
As we’ve said before on this blog this a must attend event for anyone with a vested interest in Higher Education and Games, and will be a key focus for discussions on our own accreditation work.
You can sign up now for the Manchester event on the 29th April:
www.gamesedu.co.uk/register-now-north
Or for the Brighton event (during Develop in . . . → Read More: Games:Edu registration open…
By Chris Chilton, on March 12th, 2008% The 2008 Develop 100 is out next month and there is (inevitably) a sneak peak online now, Develop reports that 26 UK studios made the top 100 this year which is good news considering the pressures UK devs are facing at the minute.
The full list is out with the April issue of Develop but you can see . . . → Read More: Develop 100 – good showing by UK studios
By Chris Chilton, on March 4th, 2008% I love this. It satisfies my needs for things to have maps of them. If that makes sense. Anyway, I’ve added Skillset, so now you can look us up. Officially.
As the man behind this idea says:
It seems almost an essential tool when job hunting, to be able to easily see which companies related to the video . . . → Read More: The big games industry map (2.0)
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