This qualification will provide students with an opportunity to cultivate their employability by developing their creative enterprise skills, expanding their industry contact base while developing their start-up projects and professional practice.

The qualification has been developed in collaboration with representatives from industry, universities, further education colleges and employers to ensure it provides students with the skills, knowledge and understanding needed to prepare them for employment, including self-employment and/or support a role in the workplace in the creative industries.

The objectives of this qualification are to give students the opportunity to:

1. Develop and demonstrate enterprise and entrepreneurial skills necessary to the creative industries
2. Develop and define their artistic ambitions and creative ideas
3. Build up their professional practice and independently initiate their creative projects
4. Achieve a nationally recognised Level 4 qualification

This qualification is designed for students who wish to start up their own project or company and wish to explore and extend their creative practice within the creative industries.

It can be used as a starting point for students who have identified a specific project that they wish to work on or to enable them to explore the basis of entrepreneurial activity by developing essential business and management skills in order to identify and respond to business opportunities in the creative sector.

This qualification is suitable for students who have an interest in starting up their own projects or company and wish to explore and extend their creative practice via a full-time or part-time immersive learning experience.

The qualification is also appropriate for students wishing to continue their education through applied learning, by locating that learning within a professional context in which they can work alongside industry experts to gain first-hand industry experience.

• 5 GCSEs (9-4) including English and Maths, plus satisfactory results (Pass/Merit/Distinction) in relevant Level 3 qualification
• An interview with a portfolio of work

Students can progress on to a media-related higher education courses, a higher apprenticeship and a range of higher education programmes.

As vocational qualifications are designed in partnership with employers, universities and professional organisations, your training will enable you to develop the skills that are highly valued by employers. You’ll have the opportunity to broaden your understanding of your chosen area through work experience and placements throughout your programme.

The in-depth skills and knowledge acquired on a vocational programme can provide the ideal preparation for progression to higher level study, such as a degree, HNC/HND or higher apprenticeship. Most colleges and universities accept vocational qualifications as fulfilling entry requirements.

The UCAS Tariff points system is used when making offers to applicants and most post-16 qualifications are allocated a total UCAS point score. The table below shows how many UCAS points the most common qualifications are worth.

If you are planning to go on to university after completing your programme you can visit ucas.com to check the UCAS points required for the course you are interested in.

Employment in the creative industry setting up your own creative company or progress directly into employment, in roles such as freelancer, account manager, consultant, talent manager, games developer, animator, director or producer within the creative industries.

This qualification will support you to develop a portfolio of work, enabling you to progress to higher education courses or conservatoires.