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Skillset Media Academy Wales
Comprises:
- Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries, University of Glamorgan (CCI)
- School of Art, Media and Design, University of Newport (NSAMD)
- Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, Aberystwyth University (TFTS)
- Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University (JOMEC)
The Academy offers distinctive and high-level, practice-based and creative education in a range of disciplines, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The specialisms within the academy are as follows:
- Animation (CCI, NSAMD);
- Broadcast journalism (CCI, JOMEC);
- Media production, inc. radio, film/tv production, scriptwriting, fashion and documentary photography, film and TV set design (CCI, TFTS, NSAMD);
- Other digital media, including interactive media, multimedia, games design (CCI, NSAMD, TFTS);
The Skillset Media Academy Wales is one of the latest Academies to receive approval. The Academy is a collaboration across pre- and post-92 universities, and is the largest partnership in the Academy network that is entirely HE.
The partnership embraces both south and mid-Wales, ensuring geographical spread, and teaching in both English and Welsh and is a ‘creative cluster' promoted by the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW) and the Wales Assembly Government (WAG). It is also:
- a bilingual Academy that offers training and research for Welsh medium professionals.
- a provider of industry-focused, critically-informed media education that emphasises cross-media collaboration and inter-disciplinarity
- a producer of research that was recognised as being of international excellence in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise
The Academy has developing relationships with the broadcast and media industries in Wales, including BBC Wales/Cymru, ITN, and Boomerang. Courses in broadcast journalism at JOMEC and CCI are accredited by the Broadcast Journalism Training Council.
Tania Vincent took a degree in computer animation at the Skillset Media Academy Wales, and is now working for television production company TTanimation. Read about her experiences.
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