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As you know, Skillset works with and on behalf of your industry to support skills and training for people and businesses to ensure we maintain our world class position. Essential to this is identifying what you and your industry needs in order to ensure resources are targeted to where there is . . . → Read More: Last chance to help paint a picture of the issues facing the Creative Media industry

Last night saw me give a speech at MITA AGM – the “Moving Image Training Alliance” – a group of 30 or so professional training companies supporting the screen-based industry. It’s a real success in it lasting for over a year – many trade associations crumble early, so much of my talk was congratulatory. But then I was asked to discuss what the key challenges facing the training professionals in keeping our industries healthy and skilled are – which leads, of course, to thoughts about the future. It was also one of the first times that I have given an actual speech – with it written down (I usually just talk!) . So, in the spirit of exploiting content I thought I would publish an extract here – it’s a bit long, but it may be of interest:

“I was asked me to do a number of things in my talk today – and one of which is to talk about the challenges facing the training professionals in equipping creative media industry with the skills they need for the future. It is this view of the future that I want to focus on tonight.  Continue reading My views on the future for training professionals