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The JAMES Working Group is made up of highly experienced industry professionals and the JAMES member organisations, APRS, MPG & U.K. Screen, represent the top facilities and practitioners in the U.K.
Facilitating access to the knowledge and experience of these people has always been high on our agenda, as many of the accredited courses have found to great advantage.
These services are, however, available to any educational establishment
We can supply, Seminar Panels, Master-classes, Individual Lecturers, Conference Speakers and more. We will also from time to time stage important events in our own right.
We have established a tariff for these services that can be sent to you on request along with further details of the available events.
Please click here to contact our events sub-group
Fundraising:
All Fundraising and Grant considerations for supporting JAMES initiatives. This aspect of JAMES researches possible funding streams for JAMES activities and makes any suitable applications for possible support. It will also look into funding as a whole for new partnerships working with JAMES services under any partner agreements.
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JAMES Careers Support:
JAMES is committed to encouraging young people into the audio industries, and so offers free guidance on careers and professional development opportunities to prospective industry entrants. Together with provision of support to educational establishments’ careers departments and the national careers services, from supplying editorial input to speakers or panel members for seminars, JAMES has representatives at the sound and media-based exhibitions, where we welcome all enquiries.
JAMES’ Career web pages should be the starting point of reference for any investigation into a career in the audio industry: Honest, unbiased, thorough and practical advice with useful links and suggestions.
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Accreditation:
David Ward answers and processes all enquiries for course accreditation. He administers the accreditation process including arrangements for assessors visits, dissemination and reading of documentation and collating final reports and accreditation decisions. He is responsible for the setting up of educational support programmes for accredited course institutions.
He guides the continual updating of the accreditation process and the revision of documentation.
He leads the group responsible for defining the accreditation process for Further Education and is also responsible for liaison with Edexcel.
With these responsibilities it is vital that he coordinates efforts with the marketing and the external liaison group.
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JAMES Educators' Forum:
JEF – the JAMES Educators' Forum has been set up to allow teachers and lecturers of subjects relating to sound engineering and music technology to participate in a shared conversation with each other to help spread best teaching practice between different establishments. The forum is subject based and has sections on equipment use and production-practice as well as training events and educational methods and regulations etc. It also allows JAMES to organise events and professional development activities for those teachers who are interested. Finally it gives the industry members of the APRS and the MPG a chance to interact directly with educators and advise accordingly! Membership is currently established by filling in an electronic form online and paying a £15/year subscription.
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JAMES Regional Centres:
JAMES Regional Centres have been set up by the core JAMES working group to help provide information about the Music Technology and Sound Engineering related education sector and how it relates to the world of work. The centres provide a regional point of contact for teachers providing education in these fields and for students who are interested in JAMES accredited courses. JAMES Regional Centres also provide at least one large-scale seminar a year hosting big-name music producer forums and guest lectures which students from a range of local colleges and schools are invited to attend. JAMES Regional Centres often also provide local training or skills development days for teachers as well as organising trips and events associated with the industry sector.
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Development:
It is the job of the development group to create relationships that further the goals of JAMES. That is, to provide real life industry links for education, and course accreditation.
We have recently created a relationship to look after the educational needs of the Audio Working Group of UK Screen, the most respected trade body representing the whole of film and broadcast. This has in turn lead to a very positive working relationship with Skillset. JAMES is undertaking accreditation for Skillset Screen and Media academies. We continue to work with other trade bodies to see if common goals in education can be consolidated or supported within JAMES.
If you are part of a trade body with key focus on audio, you should be talking to JAMES about your educational goals.
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Marketing:
JAMES is made up of music industry professionals with an immense ‘database’ of experience and knowledge - and we want to share it! Our accreditation process, masterclasses, JEF and JRC are our first steps to getting the message over to education and government. If you think you have a marketing idea that will benefit the cause, please get in touch.
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Please use this form to contact JAMES:
JAMES
Joint Audio Media Education Services
Registered in the UK
Registered Address:
Leonard Jones & Co.,
1 Printing House Yard,
London
E2 7PR
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