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ScS gives students vital work experience opportunities

A national furniture superstore is teaming up with Newcastle College to give students access to valuable work experience opportunities.

ScS have commissioned a suite of training materials for new and existing employees, which will be produced by students from the foundation degree in Television and Media Practice and in Animation.

The training video will be used for staff development and induction, while animation will be used to demonstrate how products work along with any technical innovations.

Graham Watson, National Training Officer at ScS, said: “We are committed to providing opportunities for our people to develop and in encouraging up and coming talent and by teaming up with the college we have been able to provide students with an opportunity to apply their skills to a real project, while also developing a suite of training video to help develop our employees.

“We were extremely impressed by the quality of work and professionalism shown by the students and are already planning a number of opportunities to work with the college in the future.”

Students gained valuable experience not only in film and production of the training videos, but also in project management and planning skills.

Ronnie Burn, Section Manager for Digital Media in the School of Creative Industries, said: “The success of our partnership with ScS has been tremendous.

“Right from the offset both Graham and I shared the same vision of providing students with the opportunities that just didn’t exist when we were both students, many years ago.

“Work based learning and placements are an integral part of all Foundations Degrees at Newcastle College and the school has a long history of working with employers to build a long term strategy to be able to offer ‘live’ and real work activities.”

Laura Jayne Burdiss is one of the students who was chosen to work on the project. She said: “To have the opportunity to work with real clients is an excellent part of the course and gives us real insight into how the industry works.

“ I have particularly enjoyed having the opportunity to work within a team and develop the skills that I have learnt in college in a real working environment.“

This project will look great on our CV’s and help to set us apart when we are begin looking for jobs.“

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