How Newcastle College is Plugging the North East’s Creative Skills Gaps

Newcastle College works with employers across the North East to ensure that skills and employability remain at the heart of its curriculum.  Here, Principal of Newcastle College, Scott Bullock, explains how the College stands ready to meet the skills needs of the creative sectors and develop a future workforce that will drive the region’s economic prosperity.

Did you know that Newcastle College was the Newcastle upon Tyne College of Arts and Technology until 1988? Almost 35 years later, we’ve grown to become one of the largest colleges in the UK, but our creative curriculum remains an important part of what we offer.

We have hundreds of students on creative programmes, from art and design to fashion and textiles, graphic design to photography, music production to performance and production arts, learning directly from working artists and designers, architects and musicians.

Our strong history of collaboration with local industry and our employer-led curriculum means we stand ready to meet the skills needs of the North East’s creative sectors – and we will continue to ensure that skills and employability remain at the heart of our curriculum development. But it only through honest engagement with industry and creative employers that we can make sure our students are developing the skills needed for the industry of tomorrow.

With that in mind, I encourage every creative business, entrepreneur, and employer to get in touch and find out how we can solve the problem of skills gaps in the sector, together. 

Read the full post and get involved: https://www.ncl-coll.ac.uk/news/how-newcastle-college-is-plugging-the-north-east-s-creative-skills-gaps/