Skills for the Creative Industry Workplace (CertHE)

This programme is specifically focused on employability within the creative indudstries, ensuring that students are able to use real workplace experiences to inform their studies throughout each module. Outcomes include the creation of digital portfolios, through which students can demonstrate their understanding of key skills, concepts and processes for use at interview and to harness career progression.

The programme includes a final term Career Pathway and Industry Mentoring module as well as regular industry networking sessions and an annual employers fair held on site at Tileyard London and Tileyard North.  

The programme is specifically created in its content and delivery to develop the skills that creative industry employers want and need. There are no examinations on this programme and all of the teaching is project- based, linking theory with practice and ensuring that each module is contextualised within real creative workplace situations and challenges.

Year One (CertHE, DipHE and BA)

• The Creative Industry Landscape and Enterprise
• Digital Media Skills 1
• Challenge Analysis and Strategising
• Digital Media Skills 2
• Managing the Creative Office Environment
• Career Pathway and Industry Mentoring

Term 1

The Creative Industry Landscape and Enterprise

The Creative Industry Landscape and Enterprise module provides a comprehensive and integrated foundation to the programme. It explores the multiple stakeholders and activities within the music, broadcast media, live events, design and new technology creative industry workplaces. Through discussion and real world case studies the module also reveals practical workflows, production cycles, timelines and shared skillsets.

Digital Media Skills 1

Upon the successful completion of the Digital Media Skills 1 module, the student should be able to harness the fundamental principals and practice of creative industry software packages including Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Premier, Blender and video editing skills.

Term 2

Challenge Analysis and Strategising

In the Challenge Analysis and Strategising module, the student describes a challenge, its nature, scope and impact; gathers and interprets information to solve a challenge; evaluates options to influence strategic decision making and plans, monitors and reviews the implementation and successful team communication and decisions.

Digital Media Skills 2

Upon the successful completion of the Digital Media Skills 2 module, the student should be able to harness the fundamental principals and practice of creative industry software packages including DAW Fundamentals, blog/vlog creation, website build tools and social media ad and campaign management systems. 

Term 3

Managing the Creative Office Environment

In the Managing the Creative Office Environment module, the student harnesses the fundamental principals and practices of creative industry project and office management software packages including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Monday, Slack and Chartmetric.  

Career Pathway and  Industry Mentoring

Upon the successful completion of the Career Pathway and Industry Mentoring module, the student should be able to harness the core career pathway skillsets of personal development planning, CV and LinkedIn creation and management, showreel creation, interview technique, succeeding with work experience , freelancing, project specific workload management and industry networking techniques. The student will also complete a series of six 1-2-1 industry mentoring sessions and prepare a mentee development statement.

There are a variety of assessments such as portfolios, career development plans, personal reflective statements, presentations, case studies, reports and blog posts. There are no examinations.

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This programme is only available to Home applicants.

Entry onto the programme is by individual merit. Normally students under the age of 21 will have at least 1 A Level or BTEC National Diploma/Certificate or equivalent.

Mature Candidates – experience can often be taken into consideration in lieu of formal qualifications. Grades are important; however, our offers are not solely based on academic results.

We are interested in creative people that demonstrate a strong commitment to their chosen subject area and therefore we welcome applications from individuals from a wide range of backgrounds.

To assess student suitability for their chosen course we normally arrange interviews for all applicants at which your skills, achievements and life experience will be considered as well as your qualifications.

This programme is specifically focused on employability with in the creative industries, ensuring that students are able to use workplace experiences to inform their studies throughout each module.

Explicit outcomes include the creation of digital portfolios, through which students can demonstrate their understanding of key skills, theories and methodologies for use at interview and to secure career progression.

Any additional software or hardware music equipment you might want to purchase, but all equipment is provided at Tileyard Education's facilities.

• Commercial Music Producer (BA Top Up)
• Commercial Music Producer (MA)
• Commercial Music Producer (Online Blended) (MA)
• Music Business (MA)
• Music Business (MA) (Online Blended)

Please get in touch with us if you have any questions related to the University or to this course in particular.