What do we need for the Creative Industries to thrive?

1. What do we need for the Creative Industries to thrive? Dinah Caine,OBE,CEO Creative Skillset

2. Industrial strategy • Plan for Growthidentifies the CIs as having the potential to drive significant growth in the UK • Creative Industries face constant challenges and opportunities as rapid technological change transforms them • Creative Industries Council (CIC) is set up (an Industrial Council) to instigate industry led approaches to boosting the growth and competitiveness with Government facilitating and removing barriers where appropriate. • CIC has prioritised the importance of Talent and Skills as a key factor in the growth equation and • Creative Skillset has been tasked to lead this work with a core group that includes employers, other SSCs and representation of trade associations & unions.

3. CIC skills group key recommendations • CPD and nurturing the business leaders of the future • Inspiring next generation of creative talent • Increasing & enriching pathways to enter & prosper in the Creative Industries • Better information: co-ordination to meet knowledge gaps & making robust intelligence available to all

4. Rec 2.4: Build stronger partnerships between Higher Education and the Creative Industries “the partnerships of HE with our industries could be a powerful alliance to support learning, innovation, progression and fusion” • Rec 4. 1: Extend the Creative Skillset Tick model across the sector “ a vital signpost for learning provision & excellence”

5. Higher Education is also changing From presentation at Creative Advance: • Facing disruption from rapid changes in communications, digital and IT (CDIT). • Being at the start of a mass higher education system funded primarily in England by graduates • Being in the middle of a new engagement between business and HE. There’s a long way to go, a lot to learn and fresh thinking required

6. Extending the Creative Skillset Tick • Pick the Creative Skillset Tick – kite marking of courses through accreditation • Benchmark of quality & HE trailblazer – extended in other areas • From potential pool of 4,450 HE courses at the moment accredited: - 96 HE courses (out of 180 applications) - 31 short courses (out of 48 applications) - 10 apprenticeships (out of 36 applications) • Creative Advance (Creative Skillset building capacity and best practice amongst HEI partners)

7. Higher Education institutions play a key role for Creative Industries • Partners in supporting talent pipeline and CPD • Join its voice to shape curriculum and deliver new higher level apprenticeship frameworks – BBC & Catalyst Fund proposal • Maintain excellence and quality of education, for home & international market – international work • Be innovative business partners to Creative Industries (from R&D to new start ups & skills development) – Abertay & Computer Games • Players on the local and hyper-local economic landscape - local news consortia • Enablers to develop fusion skills that our industries need to survive and thrive

8. From the Fuse to fusion skills • From STEM to STEAM= Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics "Over the past century, the UK has stopped nurturing its polymaths. You need to bring art and science back together.” Eric Schmidt, Chairman of Google, August 2011 • The Fuse by CIHE • Embed fusion skills in education (CIC Skills report) Creative Skillset supports fusion skills

9. More partnership work • Schools and curriculum – joining the voices • Creative Catalyst – online platform to connect people, employers and educators across the UK creative industries • supports resources for careers, internships, mentoring, training courses, self assessment tools, apprenticeship & internship forums, industry research and more • Research partners • Monitoring data of student destinations to see recruitment patterns and evaluate the success of programmes of study and interventions Thank you