The Gap Year Diploma is a one year, part-time course designed to develop your acting skills.

The course is aimed at those aged 18 - 25 who are interested in preparing to apply for an acting course at higher education level.

Course Content:
- Develop career skills, audition techniques and acting skills
- Perform extracts from plays in a studio-based performance
- Take specific classes in movement, voice and text. This work will be underpinned and linked with audition technique for those wanting to apply to an undergraduate course
- Career development sessions offering guidance through the Higher Education/drama school process, and on prospective careers in the performing arts
- In the final term, rehearse and perform a performance showcase. Although we do not invite agents to this, all students on this course will be seen by an undergraduate course tutor and will be offered guidance on applying to higher education courses

This degree encourages you to work with music and sound in exciting new ways. You will develop an impressive portfolio of technical and creative skills to prepare you for music-related careers. These include music production, audio engineering, sound and interaction design, music composition for film and TV, and sound art.

• Study in a vibrant, dynamic department with internationally recognised staff who share your passion for music.
• Train in cutting-edge facilities, including advanced recording and composition studios, as well as performance and practice spaces.
• Explore a wide range of subjects, such as music recording, studio production, composition, interactive music, acoustics, psychoacoustics, sound synthesis, and digital signal processing.
• Engage in music-making activities, from student ensembles and regular concerts to a summer music festival.
• Learn in a research-driven environment featuring world-class studios and recording facilities.
• Develop modern technical skills in digital and audio technologies.
• Collaborate with fellow students from across the Performing Arts department.
• Join the ranks of past students who have completed placements with renowned organisations like Les Miserables and the London Philharmonic.

Accredited by Pearson

A two year course offering a qualification equivalent to 3 A-Levels, allowing progression to University or Drama School.

Over thirty tutor-led hours of training every week, leading to assessments and performance opportunities relating to your chosen pathway: Classical, Contemporary, Devised, Physical Theatre or full musicals. Highly qualified teachers deliver excellent training in purpose built premises.

This is a fully funded opportunity for committed and talented young people looking to develop their talent and creative potential.

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Learn to communicate through storytelling, content creation, and branding across platforms. With hands-on projects, industry tools, and real-world experience, you'll build creative and professional skills for careers in media, marketing, and communications - preparing you to shape the stories that inspire and connect diverse audiences.

This professionally oriented degree equips you with creative and critical thinking, executive skills, and business awareness crucial for success in the creative industries. Learn key media functions that shape consumer culture, preparing you to excel and innovate in your career, including:

• Marketing
• Branding
• PR
• Advertising
• Data
• Audience engagement

In addition, you will develop journalistic skills such as conducting research, identifying and interviewing credible sources, editing texts, and selecting stories for publication. You will also gain general knowledge about the business of media, familiarising you with the professional media environment already before you graduate.

It all starts here. Develop your dance practice, teaching and leadership skills over two years with vibrant and supportive teachers

As a dancer with an interest in expanding your skills, this practice-based programme will help you to:

• investigate the potential of your studio practice and training
• apply your dance practice as a creative and improvisational tool
• influence culture and society.

Build a rewarding career as a professionally-qualified registered dance movement psychotherapist. Graduates are eligible to register with the Association for Dance Movement Psychotherapy UK. This programme is designed for people who have prior dance experience and professional or volunteering experience with people in need.

We believe that focusing on the creative potential of individuals in a relationship creates a sound ethical basis for psychotherapeutic work.

You will be taught by leading experts who will equip you with the skills, experience, and confidence to work as a dance movement psychotherapist.Read More

All graduating students are eligible to apply for registration with the Association for Dance Movement Psychotherapy (ADMP UK). Graduates often create their own positions; facilitating dance movement psychotherapy sessions within settings including: social services; special needs; schools; psychiatry; probationary and rehabilitation units; forensic psychiatry. 

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This MFA course will help you refine your artistic practice by advancing your creative, technical and performance skills. The programme includes:

• technique classes
• choreography workshops
• laboratory sessions
• dialogue
• writing and reflection

Go higher with a degree built around you. This is a programme for dance professionals with industry experience who want to understand practice as a form of research.

This programme is designed for experienced professional choreographers, dancers, performance makers and interdisciplinary artists who wish to deepen their choreographic or performance practice through studio-based enquiry and research.

You will also gain a range of reflective and critical skills including:

• writing and documentation strategies
• advanced dramaturgy
• the capacity to understand your work and interests in broader political, cultural and artistic frameworks

Marketing lies at the heart of every successful business. By engaging with and understanding the customer’s needs, marketing managers influence the development of products and services, providing advice on the best point of sale and recommending the most competitive price. They identify and make sure the target market knows what’s on offer – in increasingly more creative and dynamic ways.

Designed to meet the needs of industry, this course will prepare you for a career in a broad range of marketing disciplines, combining marketing strategy, marketing communications, data and analytics and market research. With work-based learning embedded in the course, you’ll graduate work ready with the skills, knowledge and expertise required to move confidently into the world of marketing.

The expansion of new media technologies and sophisticated customer profiling – covering everything from media consumption to recreational preferences – have increased the choice and importance of creative decisions in marketing strategy. Developed with input from current ‘marcomms’ practitioners, our professionally-focused degree will equip you with the creative and specialist knowledge, skills and capabilities to select the right media channels and craft the most effective messages.

Designed to create work-ready graduates who meet the needs of industry, this course will prepare you for a career in a broad range of marketing disciplines, combining branding, marketing communications, data and analytics, consumer decision-making and media planning fro both traditional and digital channels. With work-based learning embedded in the course, you’ll graduate work ready with the skills, knowledge and expertise required to move confidently into the world of marketing communications.