WHAT’S HOT IN CAREER EDUCATION

👑 FREE stuff to help career leaders, advisors & teachers…

• 🏀 NBA in the Classroom for UK students aged 11–16 - THE NATIONAL Basketball Association has launched an NBA-themed educational programme that provides free, downloadable teaching materials for secondary school teachers in the UK that focuses on career development, financial management, mental wellbeing and physical education.

• 💃 Enter schools in Dance Live! now (deadline 6 May) - The competition is an annual dance event for schools and colleges produced and managed by The Guildhall Trust. Aimed at students aged seven to 18 in Key Stages 2-4 and further education, the competition embraces the ever-evolving digital world and how this is changing the face of modern performance. Available for schools in Portsmouth, Guildford, Eastbourne, High Wycombe & Poole.

• 🌱 Free creative & cultural festival launched in Scotland - Indoor farms and outdoor festivals, alleyway allotments and schoolchildren scientists – Dandelion will be across Scotland this summer. Perfect for young people to be inspired by creativity, nature and culture! Tell your students, their parents and spread the word!

• 🎧 Fully-funded London music school taking applications - SoundSkool is a fully funded music industry college for 16 -19 year olds interested in pursuing a career in the modern music industry. For any types of a musicians, crew or music entrepreneurship. Applications now open for 2022/23.

Industry of the Week… Music 🎙

Every newsletter we give you information about a creative industry your students should know about.

Who would be interested:

• 🎙 Students who love music, technology and enjoy project-work

• 📚 Students who are interested in the latest trends & culture

• 🖥 The best GCSEs are music, english and computer science

About the industry:

• 🎸 There are very few musicians: Employment hit an all-time high of 197,168 in 2019 - barely any of which were musicians who are mostly self-employed.

• 🎪 Music and experiences go hand-in-hand: The live music sector, which is now worth £1.1 billion.

• 💰 It makes a lot of money: The UK music industry contributed £5.8 billion to the UK economy in 2019 – up 11% from £5.2 billion in 2018.

Labour Market Information:

• 📝 Here’s an amazing LMI resource by UK Music that you & your students can use.

Want to know more about careers in Music? Get your students to check out the Podcasting section on The ERIC App. We have loads of podcasts, videos, articles, events about careers in Music and obviously Music employers listed. The app is free for anyone and everyone to use!

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