CALLING ALL YOUNG CREATIVES!
University isn’t for everyone. If you’re 18 or older and keen on launching your freelance media venture or nurturing your creative side, Global Academy’s collaboration with Global could be your game-changer.
Our FREE one year course helps you expand your network, build entrepreneurial skills, and kickstart your own creative business. Partnering with industry leaders, we offer real-world experiences and tailored training to prep young creatives.
Skip the traditional university path and gain industry standard tuition-free training to jumpstart your creative career.
Manchester is known for being a vibrant and dynamic city that embraces its history, cultural diversity, and thriving economy. Moreover, the city provides the perfect environment for learning, networking, and career progression, making it the ultimate place to join our unique media school!
With a plethora of media outlets, production companies, and creative agencies calling Manchester home – you’ll be perfectly placed to have unparalleled access to industry professionals and real-world opportunities.
How to apply ....
How to Apply:
To apply to join us in September 2024 – Head over to our Apply Now page and complete the Year 14 application form!
Please note – there is a rolling deadline. Limited places.
For further details please contact Admissions – admissions@globalacademy.com
Course Fees
This course is FREE for anyone under 19 years old when the course begins on September 1st 2024.
Additionally, students are eligible for additional travel bursary /financial support depending on their circumstances (eg. received Free School Meals or Sixth Form Bursary).
Costs may apply to students aged 19+. Students can apply for an Advanced Learner Loan from the government. Please contact admissions@globalacademy.com for further details.
Kickstart Your Career at Global Academy
Discover the UAL Awarding Body Level 4 Professional Diploma in Creative Enterprise at Global Academy, nestled in the heart of Manchester’s creative scene.
Our intensive one-year course is meticulously crafted to equip you with vital skills, knowledge, and industry insights for a thriving career in the creative sector.
Collaborate across diverse creative disciplines, craft your portfolio, engage with clients, and master essential business strategies pivotal for launching your career in your chosen creative field.
As a student, you’ll directly collaborate with employer partners like Global, a leading media and entertainment powerhouse. With Europe’s largest radio network featuring renowned brands such as Capital, Heart, and Radio X, alongside other industry giants, this immersive year-long experience opens doors to unparalleled industry connections.
Perfect for individuals eager to initiate projects, venture into freelancing, or seeking a comprehensive full-time learning experience to expand and explore their creative potential.
Where could this course lead to?
The Year 14 programme is crafted to equip students with the essential skills and knowledge needed to forge careers as creative professionals.
This qualification serves as a launchpad, ideal if you have a specific project in mind. It’s an opportunity to delve into entrepreneurial activities, honing vital business and management skills essential for identifying and seizing creative sector opportunities.
Potential careers after completion include:
💻 Running a Content Production Company or Freelance Business
🎬 Radio or TV Content Production
📸 Social Content / Graphic Design Production
🎉 Event Management
📈 PR and Marketing Executive roles
✨ Roles as Presenters, YouTubers, Actors, Podcasters, and much more!
This programme opens doors to diverse and exciting career paths within the creative industry and beyond.
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What are the Entry Requirements?
In order to be considered for the course we are looking for the following criteria:
• Merit/C or above in relevant courses at sixth form
• Attendance 90% and above in Sixth Form
• Aged 18 when the course starts
• Demonstrate examples of the skills listed above plus highest standards of industry professionalism
• Demonstrate previous experience within your preferred specialism (this could be either work experience, professional experience or being involved in extra curricular projects at your sixth form college).
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What is the course Teaching Delivery like?
The learning experience on this course is primarily project-based, with a range of activities including line management meetings, production meetings, workshops, and independent study. Students will gain valuable experience in a practical setting. Depending on availability, students may also have the opportunity to undertake industry placements or work experience.
The minimum time commitment for this course is 12 hours per week, with students expected to attend the Academy for two days each week. We encourage students to use the remaining days for gaining industry-relevant work experience.
Please note that there is some flexibility in learning hours, with occasional evening and weekend sessions for shoots, productions, exhibitions, or conferences.
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What skills are needed to join Year 14?
The course is set to get you industry ready – however, we require students to have the following skills (or be prepared to learn them) to get the best out of the course:
A business idea or concept for your freelance basis or personal brand
Proven problem-solving skills
Organisation, focus and creativity
Ability to communicate with people at all levels in a professional and mature manner
Self-motivated with an internal drive to deliver great work and facilitate others
Attention to detail and the ability to work well under pressure
Good sense of project management
Abilities with technical equipment, studios and software
The ability to show initiative
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Production Office
Year 14 students will be based in their own ‘Production Office’ within Global’s North West base in the XYZ Building in Spinningfields. Students will get weekly line management meetings with their mentor who will oversee the course and project delivery.
Year 14 students will work with other members of staff and industry professionals as required as part of their individual projects which they’re working on.
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Course Timeline
The UAL Level 4 Professional Diploma in Creative Enterprise will run at Global North West from September – May.
September – October
Unit 1: The Creative EntrepreneurThis unit introduces the student to the requisite enterprise skills that are necessary to kickstart a creative business venture.
October – January
Unit 2: The Creative PractitionerThis unit will provide the student with the opportunity to define their artistic ambitions by providing the necessary time and space to research and develop their creative ideas. Students will position and contextualise their creative concept within a distinctive area of contemporary practice and will conduct case studies in order to identify and distinguish market competitors directly operating within their chosen field.
January – May
Unit 3: The Creative Enterprise development projectThis unit requires the student to develop, formalise and present a sustainable creative enterprise business plan. Students will take control of their own professional development by independently initiating a feasibility study, which will support and inform an in-depth creative enterprise business plan. The business plan will outline all the budgetary, legal, branding, marketing and health and safety requirements while also contextualising the students’ own creative practice within the wider creative industries.
Units 1 and 2 can be awarded a grade of Pass only. Unit 3 can be awarded a grade of Pass, Merit or Distinction. The overall grade is determined by the student’s achievement in Unit 3.