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Our UAL Creative Media Production courses are exceptionally proud to announce they have been awarded a ScreenSkills accreditation for a further four years.  

ScreenSkills is a prestigious and industry-led body for screen industry, covering an array of media practices including film, television, visual effects, animation, and games.  

ScreenSkills pride themselves on “supporting continued growth and future innovation across the country by investing in the skilled and inclusive workforce who are critical to the UK screen industries' global success.” They do this by working closely with learners and institutions to help provide insight into career development and fantastic opportunities to support people to enter and progress in industry. 

An endorsement from ScreenSkills is incredibly highly sought-after, and the opportunity to be awarded such an accreditation is an astounding privilege for our UAL Creative Media Production courses - which already boast an impressive level of professionalism. 

Gina Hele, Subject Area Manager, says “We are incredibly proud that Screenskills have recognised our Level 2 and Level 3 UAL Creative media production courses, and awarded us accreditation for a further four years. We look forward to continuing to work with Screenskills to benefit our students and their future Screen Industry career pathways.  

We value input from the industry when designing and delivering our curriculum and this allows us to get real time information about changes in the demands of the sector. The report states that the course is achieving standards of excellence, in terms of its industry relevance. The Team and I are delighted with this outcome.” 

This is fantastic news for our staff and learners, ensuring that the courses available are of the utmost quality and relevance to prepare students for their future careers in industry. 

If you are interested in starting your journey in Creative Media Production, or would like to find out more about our ScreenSkills accredited courses Click Here. 

Last year we launched our Career Excellence Hubs (CEH), which connects industry and education with a closer alignment than ever before. Across our fourteen Career Excellence Hubs are employer endorsers, who play a key role in supporting our learners by:

• Co-designing training provision
• Creating an inspirational learning experience
• Providing the skills training required for your business and wider industry
• Delivering a talented workforce so your business and industry will thrive.

Each of the employers we work with are doing a fantastic job, and picking a top three was very difficult, but here is our shortlist for this year’s Business Awards:

At Em2, we love welcoming learners into our salon for work experience, with the aim of assisting them as they progress and develop skills in hairdressing. When learners come to us, we expect them to be polite, professional and punctual, as well as an open mind for watching and learning new skills. We also expect them to support the team in any way they can, including keeping on top of cleaning jobs and getting clients refreshments.

Elise and Poppy are our two learners currently with us on work experience, who are studying Hairdressing and Barbering and are constantly working incredibly hard to support the team. They are consistently punctual and reliable, and always go the extra mile to work to improve on becoming a better hairdresser.

Both have learnt treatments they can offer to clients, as well as becoming educated on the products used, to correctly inform the customers on what they want to know. Since day one, they have always had the right attitude for wanting to improve.

We feel that work experience at our salon has been hugely beneficial to Elise and Poppy as it has allowed them to grow in confidence, by shadowing established hairdressers. The business’s connection with the Fellowship for British Hairdressing has also enabled them to learn valuable skills, and build up regular clients of their own.

Their progress in the work has been evident, but also the progress in themselves as people has also been clear. They each have acquired skills in many areas, both directly in the field as hairdressing, as well as confidence in welcoming and engaging in conversations with clients. I’m a very proud manager of both, and we love having them in with us.

Emma, Em2 Hair