Lamentably, when the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child carried out their quadrennial inspection on the state of children’s rights in England in 2008, they recommended “urgent measures needed to be taken to address the intolerance and inappropriate characterisation of children, especially adolescents, within society, including the media”. England is the only […]
Creative employers and teachers in Northern Ireland shared their views on how Creative Choices events can help to inspire and support young people to develop creative careers. Sharon McLennan Head of Education at the Playhouse Theatre in Derry/Londonderry “When people think of the arts, they think of people painting on the wall or being on the […]
An apprentice has urged the Prime Minister to maintain his policy on funding apprenticeships. Jacob Young, tackled David Cameron, asking him to confirm he saw apprenticeships as a respectable alternative to academic qualifications. The chemical industry apprentice with TTE Technical Training Group, also urged Mr Cameron to maintain his policy of funding apprenticeships while attending […]
In a recent Rockschool moderation, the leading accredited provider of rock exams worldwide found Dv8 Sussex’s Level 1 Music Production course to be of the highest standard possible, clocking up top marks across its audio, visual and written sections, in both the depth and quality of assessments. The highlighted areas of good practise included the extremely creative […]
11 Rules You Will Never Learn in School – Bill Gates shares advice on preparing for the real world
8Rule 1: Life is not fair, get used to it. Rule 2: The world does not care about your self esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself. Rule 3: You will not make £100,000 straight after school, you won’t be a vice president with a car phone […]
All of our tutors here at Dv8 have hidden talents and hobbies; most of them do fun and exciting things when they aren’t here imparting their knowledge upon our students. One of these is our very own Peter Ogston, who you may have heard on Code South FM. Peter O, as he’s known to his listeners, […]
For their first project, the Dv8 Events & Promotion Course have been designing music festivals for Victoria Gardens in the centre of Brighton, the original site of electronic festival, Loop. Two teams created two very different events – a huge pop party with household names headlining the main stage (notably Rita Ora), the other a […]
Tuggy Fresh, or Eliot as we call him, studied Music and Media Upload right here with us guys at Dv8. After Dv8, his music career took off massively, and now he’s back to give us an insight into what’s going on with him. We’ll let Tuggy take it from here. “Dv8 helped me to get […]
This article was taken off of Brighton SEO. Click here to view the Original. In recent months I’ve been talking to the lovely people at DV8 Sussex who are a training provider who’ve been working with apprentices to prepare them for the world of digital marketing. I had no idea about some of the great SEO and Social businesses […]
This Article was taken from The Telegraph . Click here to view the Original More teenagers should be encouraged to take work-based apprenticeships as an alternative to university, a major Government review has suggested. The review – led by entrepreneur Doug Richard – said the previous Government’s target to push half of school leavers into university […]
The Dv8 crew is busy and excited about our next round of courses starting in Bexhill and Brighton. Our Key Stage 4 and Opt-In+ programmes have already kicked off, so WELCOME to our new learners! In the next few weeks we will be opening our doors to the next generation of talent who want […]
