About Skillset - Supporting Partner of Shepton Digi Fest

Skillset is the industry body which supports skills and training for people and businesses to ensure the UK creative industries maintain their world class position. Current activity includes:

Apprenticeships in Creative and Digital Media

The Advanced Apprenticeship in Creative and Digital Media is an exciting qualification that can give you real experience of employment, invaluable access to industry networks and a recognised qualification to boot.

If you want to ‘earn while you learn’ and get training that meets current industry requirements, then have a look at Skillset’s website to find out more about this opportunity: Taking an Apprenticeship .

Visit Skillset's Facebook page Apprenticeships on Facebook to keep up to date with the latest news and vacancies or sign up to the mailing list to receive updates on this Apprenticeship.

Courses for existing practitioners

Update your skills and knowledge through media short courses that provide continuing professional development and offer postgraduate credits towards an award.

These media short courses have been specifically designed with industry to develop higher level skills at postgraduate level alongside specialist knowledge and an understanding of the changing landscape of contemporary media practice.

All courses take place at one of Skillset’s Media Academies, a national network of colleges and universities that work with industry in developing the new wave of media talent. Visit Skillset’s Build Your own MA pages to find out more: Build Your Own MA .

Accredited courses – Pick the Tick

You know you want to work in creative media, but you have no idea which course to study or which university to go to. With so many media courses out there at institutions all over the UK, how can you possibly know which are the best?

Use the Skillset Tick to guide you.

The Skillset Tick is a kitemark of quality indicating the media degrees and universities best suited to prepare you for a career in creative media.

For a course or institution to be awarded the Skillset Tick, you can be sure that it has undergone a rigorous assessment process conducted by experts working in the Creative Media Industries. They only give the Tick to those courses and universities that have the strongest links with industry.

This ensures that the courses keep up with the rapid pace of change in creative media, and students benefit from using the latest technologies and working with industry throughout their studies. Click here to search for the course with the Skillset Tick that's right for you.