Voicebox: Kickstart your career

What's the best pathway into the arts and media - a creative apprenticeship or a university course? How do I build my experience and contacts, and survive as a young professional? This Voicebox offers ideas about developing your creative career, providing you with insights and opinions from both professionals and peers.
We also have a careers section dedicated to helping you find inspiration on taking that next step!
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3 September 2015
School: a creative utopia
Imagine a world in which equality is universal. Not just between men and women, but between creatives and academics.
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2 September 2015
How to...teach yourself photography
This month we're looking at creative education...but does this always have to come from the classroom? Why not teach yourself a key arts skill?
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1 September 2015
What’s the role of film education at a young age?
Media literacy gives us so much. It's unquantifiable how much I've learnt, not from school, but from watching film and television.
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1 September 2015
How Schools View Careers in the Arts
This is a topic that is very close to my heart and the opinions I have formed come mainly from my own experiences in attempting to gain acceptance and help from my school in regards to the career path I have chosen to follow.
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1 September 2015
The best TED picks: How can creativity help your career?
Who says it best? The most informative videos about the importance of creativity from school, to working life.
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1 September 2015
Education vs Creativity...the gloves are off!
Can these two vital elements in any young person's development be brought back together?
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1 September 2015
School: should it always be about academic achievement?
Sadly, it is the case that within the current educational climate, arts subjects are being put on the back seat within the school curriculum.