Artist's Resource Pack

There are a number of organisations that might help you find the right course:

Creative and Cultural Skills has a link to an online course search for courses in advertising, crafts, cultural heritage, design, music, performing, literary and visual arts. This will take you out of the artist’s resource site and straight to the course search part of the Creative and Cultural Skills site (www10.learndirect-advice-search.co.uk/pls/hot_ufi/aff_ page_pls_all_homepage?a=211105)

If it’s a course in the audio visual industries you are after broadcast, film, video, interactive media and photo imaging, check out Skillset’s course search. This will take you out of the artist’s resource site and straight to Skillset’s site (www.skillset.org) Learndirect has information on courses that cover art, fashion art, fashion and textiles, music, dance, drama, media and new media and internet. This will take you out of the artist’s resource site and straight to the learndirect find a course site (www.learndirect-advice.co.uk/findacourse/)You can also find a number of visual arts courses through British Arts. This will take you out of the artist’s resource site and straight to the British Arts site www.britisharts.co.uk If you know you want to study at degree level or higher (Higher Education), the following will help:

• UCAS is the national organisation overseeing University and College Entrances. This will take you out of the artist’s resource site and straight to the UCAS site www.ucas.ac.uk

  
  

• There are also two independent guides to finding the right university – PUSH and RealUNi. These will take you out of the artist’s resource site and straight to the PUSH and the RealUNi sites (www.push.co.uk/ and www.realuni.com/.)

If you are looking for a foundation degree. There is a separate site just listing all these. These will take you out of the artist’s resource site and straight to the foundation degree site www.foundationdegree.org.uk If you don’t want to look online, go to a library and look in the careers section. They should have a number of directories listing the courses that are available. The official guide for higher education is University and College Entrance: the official Guide published by UCAS. A library will also have information on local colleges (for further education options). For any university or college, get hold of a copy of their prospectus. This will give you full details of their courses and also their other facilities. You can also ask to have an information visit before you a apply – why not go and check out their facilities and access for yourself? Choosing where to study is a big decision and there are lots of things to consider. There is a useful list of things to think about when choosing the right place to study on the Connextions site. These will take you out of the artist’s resource site and straight to that page on the Connextions site
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