✅ Creative career resources
✅ Initiatives & programmes for students
✅ Good-to-know creative careers news
📚 AMAZING resources about the creative industries…
Careers in Publishing - The Bookseller have created some great interviews with people doing different jobs in publishing
Careers in Architecture - RIBA have contextual learning lesson plans that fit neatly into existing school subjects, like maths
‘What actually are the creative industries?’ - If you haven’t watched Sam’s 10 min whistlestop tour, scroll down and click play now!
🔥 FREE things to help students connect with creativity…
For primary - We recently discovered the Design for Change initiative and we can’t recommend the ‘I Can school challenges’ enough to build creative thinking skills
For secondary - Only one more day left to register your interest to put students forward for the Future Leaders competition
For school leavers/uni students - I Like Networking are aiming to connect 1,000 young women & non-binary people (18+) across the UK with creative mentors!
🗞 LATEST creative industries & career education news…
Wales’ creative economy - Wales is getting a funding boost to help propel it’s already-successful creative sector even further.
London’s creative economy - London is also putting more funding into localised creative projects.
Bristol is facing a creative crisis - Accessing talent with the right skillsets is the biggest challenge facing more than a third (36%) of creative businesses in the south west.
Adobe acquires Figma - The creative industries can’t stop talking about this right now. Figma (the creatives’ favourite design tool) has been bought for $20bn.
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Our purpose at ERIC is to make sure every school in the UK is aware of how much the Creative Industries has grown in the last 20 years and how lucrative and exciting the careers available are.
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