Creative & Cultural Skills
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Creative & Cultural Skills (CCSkills)
Creative & Cultural Skills is one of several Sector Skills Councils
established by the UK
Government to foster the development of a skilled workforce. It covers crafts, cultural heritage, design, music, performing, literary and visual arts. It was created to bridge the gap between industry, education and the government as well as to give employers an effective influence over education and the skills developed in the U.K.
Its founder chair is Tony Hall, Baron Hall of Birkenhead (2004–2009). The founder Chief Executive is Tom Bewick (2004–2010). The current chair is Paul Latham of Live Nation
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. The Managing Director is Pauline Tambling.
The Founder Colleges are:
Amersham & Wycombe College
City College, Norwich
City College, Plymouth
City of Westminster College
City of Wolverhampton College
Gateshead College
Gloucestershire College
Grimsby Institute of Further & Higher Education
Leeds City College
Leicester College
Lewisham College
Liverpool Community College
New College Nottingham
North Hertfordshire College
Salford City College
South Essex College
Stoke on Trent College
Stratford-upon-Avon College
Sussex Downs College
Wiltshire College
The National Skills Academy hold several events throughout the year including Offstage Choices. In Autumn 2010 the Skills Academy ran 25 careers events across the nation delivering practical and informative day programmes focused on backstage, technical and administrative roles available in the industry. NSA Founder Colleges and Industry Members work together to present teenagers with the opportunity to get a taster of what happens behind the stage of the world’s biggest events.
The Skills Academy is developing a new technical theatre and live music training centre http://nsa-ccskills.co.uk/about-build in Purfleet, Essex, as part of High House Production Park at High House Purfleet
. The building will house training that cannot currently be delivered nationally due to space and time restrictions in existing technical theatre training and performance spaces, and will expose learners to top level, world class technical theatre and live music professionals, companies and bands in a unique training environment. Students from South Essex College will also use the space. The design incorporates a large main space of 875m² with a 17m ceiling and a number of other training spaces including a CAD studio, lighting and audio-visual training studios, generic training spaces, a recording studio and band rehearsal room. These spaces will offer access to a wide variety of technical performance media and support transferability of skills and knowledge. The building will be open for business in May 2012 in time to engage with Olympic ceremonies and training activities.
http://getintotheatre.org http://getintotheatre.org is the NSA's website for young people with information about careers in backstage theatre and live events. It includes features such as 'meet the professionals', where users can ask people questions already working in the industry. In June 2011 it was joined by http://getintolivemusic.org http://www.getintolivemusic.org, which does the same thing for young people interested in pursuing a career in live music.
Creative & Cultural Skills is one of several Sector Skills Councils
Sector Skills Councils
Sector Skills Councils are state-sponsored, employer-led organisations that cover specific economic sectors in the United Kingdom. They have four key goals:* to reduce skills gaps and shortages* to improve productivity...
established by the UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
Government to foster the development of a skilled workforce. It covers crafts, cultural heritage, design, music, performing, literary and visual arts. It was created to bridge the gap between industry, education and the government as well as to give employers an effective influence over education and the skills developed in the U.K.
Its founder chair is Tony Hall, Baron Hall of Birkenhead (2004–2009). The founder Chief Executive is Tom Bewick (2004–2010). The current chair is Paul Latham of Live Nation
Live Nation
Live Nation is a live-events company based in Beverly Hills, California, focused on concert promotions. Live Nation formed in 2005 as a spin-off from Clear Channel Communications, which then merged with Ticketmaster in 2010 to become Live Nation Entertainment....
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National Skills Academy for Creative & Cultural
The National Skills Academy for Creative & Cultural was set up in April 2009. The Academy is a network of 230 employers from Theatre and Live Music and 20 Further Education Colleges across the nine English regions. Its Founder Chair is Paul Latham, Chief Operating Officer for International Live Music at Live NationLive Nation
Live Nation is a live-events company based in Beverly Hills, California, focused on concert promotions. Live Nation formed in 2005 as a spin-off from Clear Channel Communications, which then merged with Ticketmaster in 2010 to become Live Nation Entertainment....
. The Managing Director is Pauline Tambling.
The Founder Colleges are:
Amersham & Wycombe College
Amersham & Wycombe College
Amersham & Wycombe College is a further education college situated in Buckinghamshire, England.The college consists of three campuses; the primary site being located in Amersham, with two smaller additional campuses located in neighbouring towns of High Wycombe and Chesham.A training centre also...
City College, Norwich
City College, Plymouth
City of Westminster College
City of Westminster College
City of Westminster College is a further education college located in the borough of Westminster, central London. The College has two centres located in Paddington and Queen's Park...
City of Wolverhampton College
City of Wolverhampton College
City of Wolverhampton College is a further education college located in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England.It was formed in September 1999 as the result of a merger of Wulfrun College in Wolverhampton and Bilston Community College in Bilston....
Gateshead College
Gateshead College
Gateshead College is a further education college in the town of Gateshead, England. Established on November 15, 1955 at Durham Road in Low Fell, Gateshead, the original campus was closed as part of a planned move in January 2008. The college moved into a £39 million new main site located at the...
Gloucestershire College
Gloucestershire College
Gloucestershire College abbreviated GC is a college of further education in the county of Gloucestershire, United Kingdom...
Grimsby Institute of Further & Higher Education
Grimsby Institute of Further & Higher Education
The Grimsby Institute of Further & Higher Education is a further and higher education college in North East Lincolnshire, England.-Grimsby College of Further Education:...
Leeds City College
Leeds City College
Leeds City College is the largest Further education establishment in the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, with around 57,000 students, 2,300 staff and an annual turnover of £78 million. It officially opened on 1 April 2009...
Leicester College
Leicester College
Leicester College is a further education College in Leicester, England. It is one of the largest and most successful colleges in the UK, with more than 26,000 learners, 1,600 staff, plus an annual budget of £51million....
Lewisham College
Lewisham College
Lewisham College is a further education college in Lewisham, south-east London.Lewisham College is located in the London Borough of Lewisham in south-east London. The college comprise campuses in Lewisham Way, New Cross and at Deptford Church Street...
Liverpool Community College
Liverpool Community College
Liverpool Community College is the only college of further education in Liverpool, Merseyside. It was established in 1992 by the amalgamation of all the further education colleges in Liverpool and was formerly known as the "City of Liverpool Community College".In 2005, it had approximately 7,000...
New College Nottingham
New College Nottingham
New College Nottingham is an amalgamation of education establishments in the City of Nottingham. The College caters for students from the age of 14 and has several campuses throughout the Nottingham conurbation, primarily in the City itself...
North Hertfordshire College
North Hertfordshire College
North Hertfordshire College is a further education college operating mainly in North Hertfordshire, with 29,000 enrolments in 2005-06. The College is based across 3 main campuses in Stevenage and Hitchin, with a purpose built Management Centre in Letchworth Garden City, and a vocational skills...
Salford City College
Salford City College
Salford City College is a further education college based in Salford, England. It opened on 1 January 2009, as the result of a merger between Salford College, Eccles College and Pendleton College to form a 'supercollege'...
South Essex College
Stoke on Trent College
Stratford-upon-Avon College
Stratford-upon-Avon College
Stratford-upon-Avon College is a further education college in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.It offers a wide variety of courses ranging from Pre-Entry Level to National Diplomas, A Levels and degree level courses.- History :...
Sussex Downs College
Sussex Downs College
Sussex Downs College is a further education college in East Sussex, England, that was established in 2001 through a merger of Lewes Tertiary College and Eastbourne College of Arts and Technology, with Park Sixth Form College in Eastbourne added in 2003...
Wiltshire College
Wiltshire College
Wiltshire College is a tertiary college of education founded in 2002 by the merger of Chippenham Technical College, Lackham College and Trowbridge College. Consolidation will be completed with the merger of Salisbury College, which commenced in January 2008...
The National Skills Academy hold several events throughout the year including Offstage Choices. In Autumn 2010 the Skills Academy ran 25 careers events across the nation delivering practical and informative day programmes focused on backstage, technical and administrative roles available in the industry. NSA Founder Colleges and Industry Members work together to present teenagers with the opportunity to get a taster of what happens behind the stage of the world’s biggest events.
The Skills Academy is developing a new technical theatre and live music training centre http://nsa-ccskills.co.uk/about-build in Purfleet, Essex, as part of High House Production Park at High House Purfleet
High House Purfleet
High House is the collective name for a group of historic buildings in Purfleet, Thurrock, Essex , which was used as a farm for hundreds of years, with a Grade II listed house and barn, but with the addition of one of the best dovecotes in Southern England, which is a Scheduled Ancient Monument...
. The building will house training that cannot currently be delivered nationally due to space and time restrictions in existing technical theatre training and performance spaces, and will expose learners to top level, world class technical theatre and live music professionals, companies and bands in a unique training environment. Students from South Essex College will also use the space. The design incorporates a large main space of 875m² with a 17m ceiling and a number of other training spaces including a CAD studio, lighting and audio-visual training studios, generic training spaces, a recording studio and band rehearsal room. These spaces will offer access to a wide variety of technical performance media and support transferability of skills and knowledge. The building will be open for business in May 2012 in time to engage with Olympic ceremonies and training activities.
http://getintotheatre.org http://getintotheatre.org is the NSA's website for young people with information about careers in backstage theatre and live events. It includes features such as 'meet the professionals', where users can ask people questions already working in the industry. In June 2011 it was joined by http://getintolivemusic.org http://www.getintolivemusic.org, which does the same thing for young people interested in pursuing a career in live music.