Why join the Creative Arts at The BRIT

School?
The BRIT School is a specialist Performing Arts and Technology School that delivers a
Creative arts, Performing arts and Academic curriculum.
What are the Creative Arts?
The Creative Industries were defined in the Governments 2001 Creative Industries Mapping Document
as those industries which have their origin in individual creativity, skill and talent and which have a
potential for wealth and job creation through the generation and exploitation of intellectual property.

What you need to know about the Creative Arts Industry?

The creative economy plays a defining role in the UK economy; one out of every 12 jobs in the UK
(30.15 million jobs) is within this industry. The Creative Economy is in growth with new job opportunities
in the range of sectors such as film, live events, television, app design, costume, radio, photography,
advertising, lighting and sound design, product design, graphic design, fashion design, stage
management, publishing, visual arts, computer games designers, technical arts and web developers.
The confidence and creativity gained from creative subjects play a key role in developing the skills all
employers crave: problem solving, generating ideas, teamwork. After all, it is no coincidence that 34%
of chief executives from FTSE 100 companies have an arts background.

What courses could you study with us?

At the BRIT School, the full range of Creative Arts strands and pathways courses sit within the following
department areas:

How will this

successful

support a
career?

In 2013, 99% of
BRIT School students
took up their
chosen place within:
1) Higher
education- Creative
Arts students
were accepted onto a
range of
courses at excellent
institutions such as Central Saint Martins, Chelsea School of Art, Hertfordshire, Goldsmiths,
Bournemouth and Falmouth Universities.
2) Employment or Training- Creative Arts students have gained employment with the prestigious
Albert Hall, PRG, White Light and Britannia Row.
In recent years the creative economy workforce has been growing three times more rapidly than the UK
workforce as a whole and the number of creative jobs grew on average by 3.6 per cent per year.

43% per cent of the UKs creative economy workforce is centred in London and the South East areas.

Want to find out more?

Useful websites to help you explore the potential of the Creative Arts Industries

http://www.nesta.org.uk/
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/creative-industries-economic-estimatesjanuary-2014
http://creativeskillset.org/
http://ccskills.org.uk/
http://www.e-skills.com/
http://www.stagejobspro.com/uk/
http://www.thestage.co.uk/