A skills revolution in radio and television - [Sunday... -
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Published on: 3/12/2005
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Grant Ritchie is associate principal at Dundee College, and chair of the Creative Audio Visual Industries Consortium (CAVIC).He recognises that there was a problem with existing Higher National frameworks in radio and television production:
,We did try to address it,, he said. ,We wanted to rationalise the qualifications in this skills area and we produced a Higher National Certificate (HNC) course in television and radio, but 10 years ago we were finding it very difficult to engage with the industry in the importance of training and qualifications.,
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We were seeking far greater collaboration and a more mature response from all parties, with a better training and development approach than had previously been the case,, said Mr Ritchie.
With the CAVIC in place, Mr Ritchie and his team began to work with industry to meeting the needs of an increasingly competitive marketplace.He said: ,With the industry not providing training to the same extent as it used to, we had to address the fundamental question of how we could increase the capacity to make programmes.