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ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY TAKES ACCREDITATION IN TWO AUDIO COURSES
Anglia Ruskin University in the East of England have recently received JAMES HE Accreditation in BSc (Hons) Audio and Music Technology and BSc (Hons) Audio Engineering.
Technology Programme Leader John Ward said, "We're extremely pleased with the accreditation. In addition to the value that it adds to the courses it's an important indication of active linking with the audio industry."
INSTITUTE ACHIEVES FIRST WITH JAMES PERFORMANCE ACCREDITATION
The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance is proud to announce that it has become the first performance-based institution to receive accreditation by JAMES.
Two courses at The Institute have initially been accredited; the BMus in Popular Music Performance, the UK's and the Higher Diploma. The BMus is the pre-eminent degree course for musicians wishing to reach a professional standard of musicianship and build a sustainable career in the music industry and the Higher Diploma the foremost intensive 1-year course for musicians wishing to fast-track the development of their musicianship, playing and performing skills.
Institute Director Pete Whittard commented, "We are delighted to have achieved this accreditation for two of our most important courses. The Institute has of course been recognised as a leading provider of contemporary music education for over 25 years, but to have this formally recognised by an industry body such as JAMES is fantastic."
BASCA PARTNERS WITH JAMES TO ADD VALUE TO SONGWRITING AND MUSIC PERFORMANCE COURSES
JAMES is delighted to announce a partnership with BASCA (British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors).
As previously reported, JAMES is expanding its highly-regarded accreditation scheme to Music Performance courses and BASCA will assist this process by providing professional songwriters and composers to help with the assessment of songwriting and composing modules.
BASCA’s partnership with JAMES demonstrates its commitment to music education of all types – either musical, or industry and business-based. In light of increased tuition fees and the constant need to nurture new talent, BASCA recognises the importance of accreditation schemes which can deliver the following:
* Assure potential students of the value of the course for which they are applying
* Assist employers in judging which courses are relevant for recruitment
* Allow the industry to focus on support for education and training
* Enable direct access to industry professionals
BASCA COO Vick Bain says, “Working with JAMES on accreditation is just the sort of activity BASCA should be doing and we welcome this opportunity to do so. Now more than ever potential students in the UK need an authoratative and independent opinion on music courses out there; students need to be reassured that their £27k is going to be wisely invested. Accreditation will help them sort the wheat from the chaff.”
FURTHER NEWS
Click on the headline to read the full story.
JAMES SHOWTIME REPORT
JAMES RECOGNISED BY CCS AS LEADING ORGANISATION
GUS DUDGEON FOUNDATION, JAMES AND THE THIEVING BEGGARS MAKE A RECORD!
JAMES ANNOUNCE INDUSTRY ACCREDITATION FOR MUSIC PERFORMANCE COURSES
AND THIS YEAR'S RICHER SOUNDS INDUSTRY AWARD GOES TO…
JAMES CHAIRMAN'S REPORT SPRING 2011 - PHIL HARDING
CAREERS ADVICE FROM LIFETIME PUBLISHING
NSPCC CHILD PROTECTION AWARENESS IN MUSIC
JAMES SHOWTIME REPORT
JAMES has been very busy representing our accredited ‘Higher Education’ and approved ‘Further Education’ institutions at recent music and media shows. We had a stand at the Manchester UCAS ‘Compose Your Future’ event where thousands of student visitors came to look at education options open to them and took away all the prospectuses sent to us by our education partners. As well as explaining to students the importance of ‘Industry Accreditation’ as one of the tools in their course selection tool kit, we were pleasantly surprised and encouraged by the level of interest in our accreditation programmes and several new applications were discussed. This was the first time JAMES had been to this UCAS subject specific event but will certainly be at the show next year.
Also JAMES had a stand at the recent Music Production Show in London where as the Education partner for the event, a very well attended panel was presented each day. Friday proved to be a very busy day with once again considerable interest from students attending the event. Saturday was a more relaxed day with visitors from other professional audio facilities, home studios and musicians showing an interest in continuing their understanding when using the latest technologies on display elsewhere at the show.
JAMES RECOGNISED BY CCS AS LEADING ORGANISATION
JAMES has been recognised by CCS, the Creative & Cultural Skills sector, as being a leading organisation involved with accrediting the industry specific value of education courses.
In their publication, ‘The Music Blueprint’ which is an valuable reference publication about the current state of the Music Industry, CCS state, “It is absolutely vital that any education or training taken by individuals pursuing a career in the music sector is relevant to the reality of the industry. While many higher and further education institutions (including colleges, specialist schools and universities) already work with local or national employers, there needs to be more widespread alignment between education and industry. Networks and bodies such as JAMES, the Music Education Council and others can play a key role here.”
GUS DUDGEON FOUNDATION, JAMES AND THE THIEVING BEGGARS MAKE A RECORD!
From 10th to 16th July, JAMES and the Gus Dudgeon Foundation for Recording Arts held an advanced music production experience course for seven selected top music technology students in the Gus Dudgeon Suite at the University of Glamorgan.
The course's executive producer Phil Harding commented, "It was a great honour for me to lead this course in its inaugural year. With the seven post graduate students from various JAMES accredited courses around the UK, we spent a fantastic week recording two songs with Cardiff band ‘The Thieving Beggars’. Thanks goes out to Dan Turner, who on behalf of Glamorgan University engineered the sessions and kept the MCI desk massaged and working tremendously for the whole week."
The students' reaction was equally enthusiastic, "Great to see a complete recording set-up for a seven piece band across a whole week. It was good to have the luxury of spending time experimenting on getting sounds and testing out a series of microphones on the vocalists. It was excellent to learn about studio etiquette and how much that really matters to the flow of a session. It was also good to see and learn studio banter between the control room and recording area and also between the whole group involved in the sessions."
Jim Barrett, principle lecturer summed up, "I knew Gus Dudgeon through the Music Producers Guild where he was held in great respect for his contribution to the art of record production. It is a great privilege to run this course both in his memory and to pass on the art he developed. Taking the top students from JAMES accredited university awards Phil Harding was able to take them through a whole production process that opened their eyes to the way he works with a band, to recording techniques like the achievement of recording separation with screens in a large live space, to string arranging and recording, and to open their ears to the magic sound of Gus's own MCI desk. This will be a week to remember for them and the first a many memorable weeks for us."
JAMES ANNOUNCE INDUSTRY ACCREDITATION FOR MUSIC PERFORMANCE COURSES
JAMES is now offering Industry Accreditation for Music Performance courses. This accreditation and centre approval process complements the existing accreditation schemes for Recording, Music Production, Audio Post Production courses.
JAMES Policy Director David Ward said, “Many colleges and universities have courses recognised and accredited by JAMES. Over the last year they have asked for accreditation of the performance elements of their courses. After consultation with many performers and performers organisations, we are happy to announce this new process.”
JAMES have put together a team of high level performing professionals who will visit colleges as part of the accreditation process. JAMES’ mission is to ensure that years of professional experience in our industry is not lost to future generations, therefore this accreditation is seen as a process to support college students and staff.
For more information get in touch with us via our Accreditation Contact page.
AND THIS YEAR'S RICHER SOUNDS INDUSTRY AWARD GOES TO…
The 2011 Outstanding Achievement Award sponsored by ‘Richer Sounds’ was won by a student from Leeds Metropolitan University. As well as a certificate of achievement, the winners, which are selected by the college or university where they completed their studies, receive a prize of Richer Sounds vouchers.
The JAMES/Richer Sounds Industry Award is presented each year to the outstanding graduate from any JAMES accredited or approved courses. The Award consists of a certificate of achievement and prize to the value of £75.00 for HE graduates & £50.00 for FE students. It is the course team’s responsibility to select their applicant and submit to JAMES administration. The certificate provides a valuable industry recognised addition to a student’s CV and work application pack. (Only one student is eligible for selection from each institution irrespective of the number of courses being run).
For more information, contact us here.
JAMES CHAIRMAN'S REPORT SPRING 2011 - PHIL HARDING
Wow! What a year it has been for JAMES – talking in terms of an academic year from September 2010 through to this glorious Spring 2011. We have achieved our first fully funded UK Education tour as reported in this Newsletter, The Mic To Master tour with our sponsors Prism Sound, Sadie, Audient, DPA Microphones and ATC speakers - what a fantastic line-up of manufacturers for music students to have in front of them for a day. Throw into that pot an experienced recording engineer and one of those rare beasts that don’t often come out to play - an experienced mastering engineer and anyone attending was in for a treat. All 7 events were a triumph for our JAMES Regional Centres from Deep Blue Sound in Plymouth all the way up to Abertay University in Dundee and five other centres in between who only provided the rooms and support staff for the events.
Add to that three newly accredited HE courses at Coventry University and Bucks New University and two new JAMES schemes launched this year and we have significant progress. Those schemes are the Gus Dudgeon Foundation summer school for the top-graduating students from JAMES accredited courses (sponsored by KMR) plus the JAMES/Richer Sound student award for JAMES accredited course students.
JAMES has also made significant headway this year in progressing relationships with UK Music, CCS, QAA and of course solidifying our ongoing relationship with Skillset (The JAMES accreditation scheme is officially recognised by Skillset). Our ongoing relationships with City & Guilds and Edexcel have also flourished this year. We have also welcomed three newly trained assessors from UK Screen this year – Eddy Joseph, Steve Cookman and Scott Parker.
During the last 12 months JAMES has also gained wider recognition throughout the Music Industry and government publications by receiving high praise and recommendations for our Accreditation scheme in the UK Music ‘Liberating Creativity 2010/2011’ document and also in the CCS Music Blueprint for government in March 2011. Both documents can be downloaded as PDF’s via the UK Music website – www.ukmusic.org
JAMES has also had an interesting set of articles published in the pro-audio magazine Resolution throughout 2010/2011 about Education linking with Industry and our Accreditation schemes. These will be published in pamphlet form for reference for Educationalists and Students.
We already have a number of new Accreditations, Centre Approvals and Re-Accreditations booked from October 2011 onwards throughout the next academic year. If you are a course leader or lecturer interested to know more about our HE accreditation and FE Centre Approval schemes then please email Dave Ward through our Accreditation Contact page.
CAREERS ADVICE FROM LIFETIME PUBLISHING
Lifetime Publishing is one of the UK’s leading producers of careers education, PSHE and citizenship resources for people of all ages and abilities.
Click here to to go to the JAMES Careers Advice page to view their latest information leaflet on working in the Sound Recording industry.
NSPCC CHILD PROTECTION AWARENESS IN MUSIC
Child Protection Awareness in Music is the latest in the NSPCC’s EduCare series of distance learning courses. It has been produced by the NSPCC and the Musicians Union, in partnership with MusicLeader, and the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM).
The training programme uses short films to show a variety of good and bad practice examples. It will help anyone teaching music to children to gain a better understanding of their child protection responsibilities and to avoid situations that could lead to accusations of misconduct.
This is an online course costing £15 + VAT. It is in 4 modules (which literally would take 1 or 2 hours at most) and is a bespoke course developed with the NSPCC for musicians who teach. A certificate is issued on completion which can then be shown to employers, parents, etc.
Go to http://platinum.educare.co.uk/music for more information and to book the course.
The best practice videos are available to view at -
www.youtube.com/user/TheMusiciansUnion
Back to top.
ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY TAKES ACCREDITATION IN TWO AUDIO COURSES
Anglia Ruskin University in the East of England have recently received JAMES HE Accreditation in BSc (Hons) Audio and Music Technology and BSc (Hons) Audio Engineering.
Technology Programme Leader John Ward said, "We're extremely pleased with the accreditation. In addition to the value that it adds to the courses it's an important indication of active linking with the audio industry."
INSTITUTE ACHIEVES FIRST WITH JAMES PERFORMANCE ACCREDITATION
The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance is proud to announce that it has become the first performance-based institution to receive accreditation by JAMES.
Two courses at The Institute have initially been accredited; the BMus in Popular Music Performance, the UK's and the Higher Diploma. The BMus is the pre-eminent degree course for musicians wishing to reach a professional standard of musicianship and build a sustainable career in the music industry and the Higher Diploma the foremost intensive 1-year course for musicians wishing to fast-track the development of their musicianship, playing and performing skills.
Institute Director Pete Whittard commented, "We are delighted to have achieved this accreditation for two of our most important courses. The Institute has of course been recognised as a leading provider of contemporary music education for over 25 years, but to have this formally recognised by an industry body such as JAMES is fantastic."
BASCA PARTNERS WITH JAMES TO ADD VALUE TO SONGWRITING AND MUSIC PERFORMANCE COURSES
JAMES is delighted to announce a partnership with BASCA (British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors).
As previously reported, JAMES is expanding its highly-regarded accreditation scheme to Music Performance courses and BASCA will assist this process by providing professional songwriters and composers to help with the assessment of songwriting and composing modules.
BASCA’s partnership with JAMES demonstrates its commitment to music education of all types – either musical, or industry and business-based. In light of increased tuition fees and the constant need to nurture new talent, BASCA recognises the importance of accreditation schemes which can deliver the following:
* Assure potential students of the value of the course for which they are applying
* Assist employers in judging which courses are relevant for recruitment
* Allow the industry to focus on support for education and training
* Enable direct access to industry professionals
BASCA COO Vick Bain says, “Working with JAMES on accreditation is just the sort of activity BASCA should be doing and we welcome this opportunity to do so. Now more than ever potential students in the UK need an authoratative and independent opinion on music courses out there; students need to be reassured that their £27k is going to be wisely invested. Accreditation will help them sort the wheat from the chaff.”
FURTHER NEWS
Click on the headline to read the full story.
JAMES SHOWTIME REPORT
JAMES RECOGNISED BY CCS AS LEADING ORGANISATION
GUS DUDGEON FOUNDATION, JAMES AND THE THIEVING BEGGARS MAKE A RECORD!
JAMES ANNOUNCE INDUSTRY ACCREDITATION FOR MUSIC PERFORMANCE COURSES
AND THIS YEAR'S RICHER SOUNDS INDUSTRY AWARD GOES TO…
JAMES CHAIRMAN'S REPORT SPRING 2011 - PHIL HARDING
CAREERS ADVICE FROM LIFETIME PUBLISHING
NSPCC CHILD PROTECTION AWARENESS IN MUSIC
JAMES SHOWTIME REPORT
JAMES has been very busy representing our accredited ‘Higher Education’ and approved ‘Further Education’ institutions at recent music and media shows. We had a stand at the Manchester UCAS ‘Compose Your Future’ event where thousands of student visitors came to look at education options open to them and took away all the prospectuses sent to us by our education partners. As well as explaining to students the importance of ‘Industry Accreditation’ as one of the tools in their course selection tool kit, we were pleasantly surprised and encouraged by the level of interest in our accreditation programmes and several new applications were discussed. This was the first time JAMES had been to this UCAS subject specific event but will certainly be at the show next year.
Also JAMES had a stand at the recent Music Production Show in London where as the Education partner for the event, a very well attended panel was presented each day. Friday proved to be a very busy day with once again considerable interest from students attending the event. Saturday was a more relaxed day with visitors from other professional audio facilities, home studios and musicians showing an interest in continuing their understanding when using the latest technologies on display elsewhere at the show.
JAMES RECOGNISED BY CCS AS LEADING ORGANISATION
JAMES has been recognised by CCS, the Creative & Cultural Skills sector, as being a leading organisation involved with accrediting the industry specific value of education courses.
In their publication, ‘The Music Blueprint’ which is an valuable reference publication about the current state of the Music Industry, CCS state, “It is absolutely vital that any education or training taken by individuals pursuing a career in the music sector is relevant to the reality of the industry. While many higher and further education institutions (including colleges, specialist schools and universities) already work with local or national employers, there needs to be more widespread alignment between education and industry. Networks and bodies such as JAMES, the Music Education Council and others can play a key role here.”
GUS DUDGEON FOUNDATION, JAMES AND THE THIEVING BEGGARS MAKE A RECORD!
From 10th to 16th July, JAMES and the Gus Dudgeon Foundation for Recording Arts held an advanced music production experience course for seven selected top music technology students in the Gus Dudgeon Suite at the University of Glamorgan.
The course's executive producer Phil Harding commented, "It was a great honour for me to lead this course in its inaugural year. With the seven post graduate students from various JAMES accredited courses around the UK, we spent a fantastic week recording two songs with Cardiff band ‘The Thieving Beggars’. Thanks goes out to Dan Turner, who on behalf of Glamorgan University engineered the sessions and kept the MCI desk massaged and working tremendously for the whole week."
The students' reaction was equally enthusiastic, "Great to see a complete recording set-up for a seven piece band across a whole week. It was good to have the luxury of spending time experimenting on getting sounds and testing out a series of microphones on the vocalists. It was excellent to learn about studio etiquette and how much that really matters to the flow of a session. It was also good to see and learn studio banter between the control room and recording area and also between the whole group involved in the sessions."
Jim Barrett, principle lecturer summed up, "I knew Gus Dudgeon through the Music Producers Guild where he was held in great respect for his contribution to the art of record production. It is a great privilege to run this course both in his memory and to pass on the art he developed. Taking the top students from JAMES accredited university awards Phil Harding was able to take them through a whole production process that opened their eyes to the way he works with a band, to recording techniques like the achievement of recording separation with screens in a large live space, to string arranging and recording, and to open their ears to the magic sound of Gus's own MCI desk. This will be a week to remember for them and the first a many memorable weeks for us."
JAMES ANNOUNCE INDUSTRY ACCREDITATION FOR MUSIC PERFORMANCE COURSES
JAMES is now offering Industry Accreditation for Music Performance courses. This accreditation and centre approval process complements the existing accreditation schemes for Recording, Music Production, Audio Post Production courses.
JAMES Policy Director David Ward said, “Many colleges and universities have courses recognised and accredited by JAMES. Over the last year they have asked for accreditation of the performance elements of their courses. After consultation with many performers and performers organisations, we are happy to announce this new process.”
JAMES have put together a team of high level performing professionals who will visit colleges as part of the accreditation process. JAMES’ mission is to ensure that years of professional experience in our industry is not lost to future generations, therefore this accreditation is seen as a process to support college students and staff.
For more information get in touch with us via our Accreditation Contact page.
AND THIS YEAR'S RICHER SOUNDS INDUSTRY AWARD GOES TO…
The 2011 Outstanding Achievement Award sponsored by ‘Richer Sounds’ was won by a student from Leeds Metropolitan University. As well as a certificate of achievement, the winners, which are selected by the college or university where they completed their studies, receive a prize of Richer Sounds vouchers.
The JAMES/Richer Sounds Industry Award is presented each year to the outstanding graduate from any JAMES accredited or approved courses. The Award consists of a certificate of achievement and prize to the value of £75.00 for HE graduates & £50.00 for FE students. It is the course team’s responsibility to select their applicant and submit to JAMES administration. The certificate provides a valuable industry recognised addition to a student’s CV and work application pack. (Only one student is eligible for selection from each institution irrespective of the number of courses being run).
For more information, contact us here.
JAMES CHAIRMAN'S REPORT SPRING 2011 - PHIL HARDING
Wow! What a year it has been for JAMES – talking in terms of an academic year from September 2010 through to this glorious Spring 2011. We have achieved our first fully funded UK Education tour as reported in this Newsletter, The Mic To Master tour with our sponsors Prism Sound, Sadie, Audient, DPA Microphones and ATC speakers - what a fantastic line-up of manufacturers for music students to have in front of them for a day. Throw into that pot an experienced recording engineer and one of those rare beasts that don’t often come out to play - an experienced mastering engineer and anyone attending was in for a treat. All 7 events were a triumph for our JAMES Regional Centres from Deep Blue Sound in Plymouth all the way up to Abertay University in Dundee and five other centres in between who only provided the rooms and support staff for the events.
Add to that three newly accredited HE courses at Coventry University and Bucks New University and two new JAMES schemes launched this year and we have significant progress. Those schemes are the Gus Dudgeon Foundation summer school for the top-graduating students from JAMES accredited courses (sponsored by KMR) plus the JAMES/Richer Sound student award for JAMES accredited course students.
JAMES has also made significant headway this year in progressing relationships with UK Music, CCS, QAA and of course solidifying our ongoing relationship with Skillset (The JAMES accreditation scheme is officially recognised by Skillset). Our ongoing relationships with City & Guilds and Edexcel have also flourished this year. We have also welcomed three newly trained assessors from UK Screen this year – Eddy Joseph, Steve Cookman and Scott Parker.
During the last 12 months JAMES has also gained wider recognition throughout the Music Industry and government publications by receiving high praise and recommendations for our Accreditation scheme in the UK Music ‘Liberating Creativity 2010/2011’ document and also in the CCS Music Blueprint for government in March 2011. Both documents can be downloaded as PDF’s via the UK Music website – www.ukmusic.org
JAMES has also had an interesting set of articles published in the pro-audio magazine Resolution throughout 2010/2011 about Education linking with Industry and our Accreditation schemes. These will be published in pamphlet form for reference for Educationalists and Students.
We already have a number of new Accreditations, Centre Approvals and Re-Accreditations booked from October 2011 onwards throughout the next academic year. If you are a course leader or lecturer interested to know more about our HE accreditation and FE Centre Approval schemes then please email Dave Ward through our Accreditation Contact page.
CAREERS ADVICE FROM LIFETIME PUBLISHING
Lifetime Publishing is one of the UK’s leading producers of careers education, PSHE and citizenship resources for people of all ages and abilities.
Click here to to go to the JAMES Careers Advice page to view their latest information leaflet on working in the Sound Recording industry.
NSPCC CHILD PROTECTION AWARENESS IN MUSIC
Child Protection Awareness in Music is the latest in the NSPCC’s EduCare series of distance learning courses. It has been produced by the NSPCC and the Musicians Union, in partnership with MusicLeader, and the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM).
The training programme uses short films to show a variety of good and bad practice examples. It will help anyone teaching music to children to gain a better understanding of their child protection responsibilities and to avoid situations that could lead to accusations of misconduct.
This is an online course costing £15 + VAT. It is in 4 modules (which literally would take 1 or 2 hours at most) and is a bespoke course developed with the NSPCC for musicians who teach. A certificate is issued on completion which can then be shown to employers, parents, etc.
Go to http://platinum.educare.co.uk/music for more information and to book the course.
The best practice videos are available to view at -
www.youtube.com/user/TheMusiciansUnion
Back to top.
A principle function of JAMES is Course Accreditation for audio recording & music production, live performance, music composition and audio post production for film & TV. In addition, JAMES actively provides industry support for education and student careers advice.
Made up of dedicated audio industry professionals and academics, JAMES' role is to create and maintain supportive links between education and the media industries. We wish to ensure that many years of professional experience are not lost to future generations.
JAMES accredits education on behalf of the Association of Professional Recording Services (APRS), the Music Producers Guild (MPG), the UK Screen Association and the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA).
Made up of dedicated audio industry professionals and academics, JAMES' role is to create and maintain supportive links between education and the media industries. We wish to ensure that many years of professional experience are not lost to future generations.
JAMES accredits education on behalf of the Association of Professional Recording Services (APRS), the Music Producers Guild (MPG), the UK Screen Association and the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA).
