1. Beginning a conversation with employers, the challenges faced when writing a new vocational programme at Levels 4-7
David Hockham

2. Creative industries worth £87
Creative industries worth £87.4 Billion Pounds a Year in the UK Department of Media Culture and Sport 2015

3. What do I mean by the industry will become supersaturated and ethically contested?
1,300 Theatres distributed across the UK (Theatre Trust)
Predicted T Level placements
2,000, Year Olds in England (ONS)
If 40% of these take the T level and 1% of these choose technical theatre
8000 placements will be needed per year
+ Apprenticeships LEVELs 2-7
+ Placements for Universities and Drama Schools

4. Short Term recommendations
1) Add a pathway of technical theatre courses in the Drama Programmes curriculum that we can run in house 2) Encourage the use of the “new” placement year and advertise it more to incoming students 3) Investigate ‘theatre focussed’ apprentices that are not the Creative Venue Technician and already up and running in the university 4) Investigate industry focused Foundation Degree (level 4& 5) with national skills college and forge a relationship here.

5. Mid Term Recommendations
5) Present a 3 year technical theatre degree programme which is a hybrid of standard university education and apprenticeship 6) Become a member of Creative and Cultural skills for a trial period of 3 years – This makes us a recommended training provider as they marry industry apprenticeships with educational institutions. 7) Be at the centre of discussions around lvl 4-7 Creative Venue Apprentices. 8) Bridge subject areas to create new programme mix options with clear theatre outputs 9) To write a masters in: “Theatre Company practices: Creation and touring”.

6. Longer Term recommendations
10) Make it easier and incentivise cross programme collaboration

7. Bibliography
‘Careers strategy: making the most of everyone’s skills and talents’ (2017) Department of Education, (December). Available at: Creative & Cultural Skills (2010) ‘The Performing Arts Blueprint’, (February). Farthing, A. (2012) Mapping Technical Theatre Arts Training. doi: The Higher Education Academy. Fuller, A. and Unwin, L. (2008) ‘Towards expansive apprenticeships’, A Commentary for the ESRC’s Teaching and Learning …, p. 24. Available at: Guile, D. and Lahiff, A. (2016) ‘Apprenticeship for “ Liquid Life ” : Learning in Contingent Work Conditions for Contingent Employment’. Vocations and Learning, pp. 157–175. doi: /s ‘Inquiry: Skills for the theatre industry. Oral and Written evidence’ (2017). Available at: Lave, J. and Wenger, E. (1991) Situate Learning: Legitimate peripheral participation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Resnick, L. B. (1987) ‘Learning in school and out’, Educational Researcher, 16(9), pp. 13–20. doi: / X Skillset (2011) ‘Sector skills assessment for the creative industries of the UK’, (January). Smith, A. (2017) ‘Workforce Review of the UK Offstage Theatre and Performing Arts Sector UK Theatre and Society of London Theatre’, (June) Statisticians, D. (2016) DCMS Sectors Economic Estimates. Available at: _August_2016.pdf. Wright, S., Holden, J. and Kieffer, J. (2011) CreativityMoneyLove.