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Appendix D: Benchmark Research Summary
Institution
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
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Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
Royal Central School of Speech & Drama
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Three community tours to school and theatre audiences in year 2. Professional Acting BA (Hons) – Module of ‘Self Presentation/Marketing/Career Management’ (15 credits) in Year 3. Production Arts (Stage & Screen) BA (Hons) – Module of ‘Employment Focus’ in Year 3 (40 credits)
BA Hons Acting - Year 3 emphasis is on productions (145 credits), alongside a Career Prep module (5 credits). This latter module includes showcases to agents and prospective employers, visiting professional tutors, etc. Separate course Performance & Creative Enterprise (PACE): includes an Enterprise modules, focuses on basic project management skills, plus writing and pitching proposals (Year 1), fundraising, budgets, marketing and contracts (Year 2) and creating a CV and career plan (year 3). Includes a 6-week residency in Year 3 and a final project running over 2 terms that includes a 150 hour placement. Guildhall Innovation Funding scheme, which gives their staff an opportunity to grow initial research ideas, pilot projects or explore research concepts. (No mention of it available to students though). Also have a ‘Guildhall Creative Entrepreneurs’ programme, which is an incubator for launching or growing performing arts enterprises. Run in partnership with Casue4, who provide the business skills. It’s a non-accredited programme for 12 months, costs £1,500 and is part-time (sessions on a Wednesday each week in term time). Set up over 35 businesses since 2013. www.gsmd.ac.uk/youth_adult_learning/guildhall_creative_entrepreneurs/about_the_scheme
BA Acting: Professional Development course in Year 3 (20 credits)
StART Entrepreneurship Scheme – awarded £900,000 by OfS and Research England. Led by Royal Northern College of Music, with UAL and Central. Central’s project will focus on in-curricula and extra-curricular – key aim is for students to understand selfresponsibility. Also offer an Enterprise Award, supported by 2 workshops each term which are open to everyone. Students pitch and develop the idea, total fund is £25k. Admits it is mostly about marketing the School.
Institution
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance
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BA Acting: deliver workshops in schools (Year 2), collaborate with peers to explore new and devised work in the On the Verge Festival (year 2), perform in industry showcases (Year 3) Also has Professional Practice modules in both Year 2 (work applications, audition approaches, castings and entrepreneurship – 20 credits) and Year 3 (classes in tax, personal finance, CV layouts, audition prep, preparation for and performance of the industry – 15 credits)
Annual new writing festival which enables students to work with up-and-coming writers and directors. Courses ‘also feature opportunities for students to explore their own ideas, develop original work and take part in masterclasses’.
Make regular use of the ‘portfolio career’ term. Talk about the fact that performing is unlikely to be a student’s only income stream from the very start – at admission point. Enterprise and entrepreneurship is embedded into the curriculum, led by each of the two faculties (dance & music). There is a project run as a module where students have to do a proposal from concept to delivery (marketing, promotion, budgeting etc). Have industry visitors talking about a range of careers; also talks on tax, grants etc. Have an Innovation Award, for which students apply with a business idea, win £3k seed funding and alumni mentoring (6 winners each year). Also run CoLab – a two-week festival of self-generated work.
The usual career development training for students. But the overall ‘vibe’ is about community and creation; they share their space with 328 arts and creative organisations; 5,000 people visit each year to exercise, training, dance, act, sing and develop their craft in their spaces including commercial, not for profit and community organisations and alumni. And they pride themselves on reaching talent from that may feel excluded from further training due to socioeconomic reasons – they have 54 ‘scouting partners’ nationwide.
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