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Creative Skillset launches Student Design Award

Creative Skillset, the industry skills body for the creative industries, has announced that it has set up the Anne Tyrrell Student Design Award, in memory of the fashion and interior designer to support students in the second year of their Creative Skillset ticked fashion courses. Her career spanned more than fifty years in fashion and design,...

Fashion

Creative industries to invest in development of skills

Businesses from the creative sector are to invest 17 million pounds into developing world-class skills and talent, boosting the multimillion-pound package pledged by the government. The 500 creative firms, led by Channel 4 and Creative Skillset, have pledged to matchthe 16 million pounds fund announced by business secretary Vince Cable last week...

Design

Fashion and Textiles Group Training Association launches

England’s first Fashion and Textiles Group Training Association has been launched with the aim of uniting the fashion and textiles industry in a “shared approach to high-quality training”. The employer-led network, funded by the National Apprenticeship Service and supported by Creative Skillset, plans to bring together employers with similar...