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Meet the Creative & Cultural Skills Award winners 2018!

On Monday 16th April around 200 creative industry colleagues met to celebrate skills development in our sector

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Tom Watson MP: We must harness the positive of technological change

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Introduction by Pablo Lloyd, CEO, Activate Apprenticeships.

When I ask our business clients what they look for in new recruits, they tell me they are becoming less interested in qualifications and more interested in creativity and the ability to learn. Our Director of Creative Arts, Chris Hyde, illuminates this in the following article about the vanishing point.

Theatre training has different needs to other university subjects

The plight of some major drama schools

Sarah Laverty 5 April 2018

The marriage of universities and drama schools

We must harness the positive of technological change

Huw Morgan 26 March 2018

Guest blog from Tom Watson MP

The success of the live music industry depends on grassroots venues

Sarah Laverty 20 March 2018

We're venues offer routes into live music industry

Creative Voices

Don't rely on your talent alone. Create connections to further your success.

What can a guitar god teach you about networking?

Darryl Howes MSc 1 February 2018

When it comes to success many say that it’s not what you know, but who you know that’s important. But is that the case? The story of how Steve Vai became one of the world’s greatest guitar heroes shows that most of the time it’s a combination of the two.