USW First In UK To Join Forces With Creative & Cultural Skills
The University of South Wales has become the first Higher Education Institution in the UK to join Creative & Cultural Skills in a bid to bring more professional opportunities to creative students.
Creative & Cultural Skills brings together education and industry to look at the key skills gap faced by employers, and ensure that students meet the future demands of the workforce.
USW is the first Welsh university to join forces with Creative & Cultural Skills, which will help form new relationships with employers and develop ‘live brief’ learning opportunities for students.
Mark Jackson, Head of the School of Art & Design at the University of South Wales, said: “We are delighted to have signed this unique agreement with Creative & Cultural Skills, who have been fantastic in liaising with major employers to discuss the future skills needed within the creative industries.
“Thanks to this partnership, our academic and technical staff are able to benefit from access to excellent professional networks, and fantastic vocational opportunities and work placements for our undergraduate students.
“We look forward to building on this agreement as we prepare to open our expanding Cardiff campus in September, which will bring all of our creative industries provision in one great powerhouse for the arts.”
Pauline Tambling CBE, CEO of Creative & Cultural Skills, said: “The creative industries in the UK are worth £84.1 billion pounds per year. They have proved resilient through recession and are forecast to grow significantly over the next decade.
“Partnerships with education institutions such as the University of South Wales are vital in promoting creativity, and therefore promoting economic growth, to ensure that students can fulfil the needs of employers as soon as they graduate.”
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