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18/04/2013

BBC Launches New Apprentice Scheme

The BBC is to launch a new technology and engineering apprentice scheme to address a critical technology skills shortage in the broadcast sector.
The BBC Technology Apprenticeship aims to produce 100 highly skilled, experienced and employable graduate-level apprentices over eight years to meet growing industry demand.
The apprenticeship opens for applications on today, Thursday 18 April, at bbc.co.uk/careers and will recruit 20 apprentices annually for a three-year programme, working toward an honours bachelor degree.
Apprentices will be based across the UK and will receive a combination of world-class training, work placements and academic study.
As part of the Open Channels initiative announced in December 2012, BBC Technology and the BBC Academy, in partnership with major UK universities and Creative Skillset, have brought together some of the UK’s biggest broadcasters (BBC, Channel 4, and ITV) and media infrastructure companies (Red Bee Media and Arqiva) to shape a common skills agenda, collaborating for the first time ever to solve a critical industry skills gap.
Apprentices will also benefit from work placements within partner organisations as part of the practice-based learning programme.
The academic courses will cover topics such as software development and managing IP networks, as well as the traditional engineering principles of electronics, electrics, video and audio systems.
The BBC is working with the Universities of Salford and Birmingham City to develop best-in-class courses that give apprentices a world-class foundation in the theory of broadcast engineering.
The programme will help break the cycle of closed graduate recruitment and ad hoc entry level training to attract a more diverse range of exciting young talent into the sector.
The BBC will employ 100 technology apprentices over eight years on behalf of the wider broadcast and media sector – making newly trained talent available to work across the industry on completion of the qualification.
John Linwood, the BBC's Chief Technology Officer, says: "The BBC has been at the forefront of broadcasting engineering excellence over many decades. This important industry initiative is a major contribution towards helping train and develop the next generation of engineering talent, and helping the UK broadcasting industry maintain its world leading position for the future."
Anne Morrison, Director of the BBC Academy and Chair of Creative Skillset TV & Content Strategy Group, adds: "We aim to make the BBC's training and associated resources available more widely across the broadcast supply chain - focusing on key industry skills gaps and attracting a wide and diverse range of applicants to help address the industry shortfall in this sector."
www.bbc.co.uk/careers
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