Powerful Partnerships

Following on from my last blog where I extolled the vital importance of Industry Partnerships for providing students with game changing experiences in applied creativity, projects where they get to learn and make in a more credible and realised way than a typical classroom can ever facilitate. I thought I’d start a run of posts focussing in on some impressive partnerships, giving some shout outs to some of our innovative partners who are leading the way with helping us enrich skills learning for our students and trainees, increasing the quality and impact of creative training.

At ESA, we have designed a curriculum that foregrounds the creative industries. Our ‘pipeline curriculum’ is built to sharpen our students towards crafts, trades and technical disciplines that are crucial to the professional screen and theatre industries. All of these pipelines are then supported by industry partners.

The ESA ‘Pipeline Curriculum’, leading to further training and employment in the creative sector

Some of our partners provide placements and work experience, some present talks and workshops, some loan or give kit and skills training, others have gone on to offer employment to our graduates and some donate financially to support the costs of our innovative practice based curriculum which is not funded by our government grant.

So, watch this feed! My next few posts feature some superb case studies of some of our most impressive and high impact partnerships. From ‘CAMHS Digital Lab’ to ‘Headline Magazine’, we’ll bring you some examples of why industry partnerships, together with vocational education and training can offer so much for the future talent pipeline of the creative, cultural and communications sector.