Media Skills Research
The object of this short piece of research was to create a snapshot of the arts and media sectors in the Midlands in order to highlight issues around key skills, training requirements and career routes. This was to help us design developments to the Youthstart initiative, a programme of pre-vocational training for young people which has been delivered around Birmingham since 1998.
We interviewed 20 representatives of a range of companies in the Cultural Industries, from model makers to TV Production houses. This was an imprecise and ‘quick and dirty’ mechanism but it proved to be a useful means of pinpointing how the Cultural Industries operate from a training point of view and to get a measure of how they might interface with prospective Youthstart programmes.
See The Report
Also see Birmingham Youthstart 2000
