BSAC Supports Next Gen Skills Campaign

28 November 2011.

BSAC was named as one of the industry supporters of the Next Gen Skills Campaign at the  launch event held on 28 November 2011. Next Gen Skills is a major new industry campaign to promote the skills needed for hi-tech growth in Britain through fundamental changes to the education system.

BSAC was named as one of the industry supporters of the Next Gen Skills Campaign at the  launch event held on 28 November 2011. Next Gen Skills is a major new industry campaign to promote the skills needed for hi-tech growth in Britain through fundamental changes to the education system.

Speaking at the launch event Ian Livingstone OBE, and Alex Hope, MD of Double Negative, outlined how the Campaign aimed to achieve the recommendations set out in the Livingstone-Hope Review of the skills needs of the Video Games and Visual Effects Industries.

 

Next Gen Skills is campaigning for:

·         The introduction of an industry relevant Computer Science course within the framework of the National Curriculum;

·         A review of ICT in its current form and to embed essential ICT skills across the wider curriculum;

·         The promotion of the vital role that teaching maths, physics, art and computer science will play in ensuring the growth of the UK’s digital, creative and hi-tech industries.

 

BSAC welcomes the Government Response to the Livingstone-Hope Review, published today, which recognises that current teaching of ICT is ‘insufficiently rigorous and in need of reform’, and opens the door to working with industry to achieve reform of the curriculum.

Fiona Clarke-Hackston, Chief Executive, BSAC,said that ‘Technological change has had a huge impact on the skills needs of the audiovisual industries.  If the UK is to remain globally competitive it is essential that changes are made to our educational system.  The British Screen Advisory Council fully supports the Next Gen Campaign.’