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Our teaching team brings together communications specialists, PR professionals, journalists and expert academics who know the industry with decades of combined industry experience. They’ve worked across Parliament, journalism, PR agencies, digital marketing, social media strategy and national award-winning campaigns.
Many continue to work in the communications industry, keeping their teaching fresh, relevant and connected to what employers need now. Their professional networks help students learn from real campaigns, live briefs, creative industry insight and up to date practice.
You’ll join a thriving creative community at Park Campus in Cheltenham.
You’ll learn the skills to be able to record podcasts and audio in our four industry-level professional studios.
You’ll have access to our extensive kit store to be able to use state-of-the-art video and audio equipment to complete your projects.
You’ll develop media skills and communications strategies in our TV studios, supported by our professional team.
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Our strong industry partnerships give you the chance to gain real-world experience throughout your studies. We have built relationships with PR agencies across Cheltenham, Bristol, London and beyond, while students create content and campaigns for clients including SS Great Britain, Cheltenham Jazz Festival, the Everyman Theatre, and Gloucester Brewery.
Through an ongoing partnership with a leading events organisation, you can undertake comms and media placements at major festivals including BST Hyde Park, All Points East, and Notting Hill Carnival. We’re also partnered with the University of Economics and Finance, Vietnam, opening up international collaborative projects and a global perspective on communications.
The course offers trips to Bristol, London and across Gloucestershire. regularly take their work beyond the classroom, responding to live briefs from real clients as part of the Communications Agency module. Recent projects have included developing a fundraising campaign for the SS Great Britain in Bristol — work that culminated in a campaign launch aboard the ship and BBC TV news coverage — alongside collaborations with NHS Gloucestershire, Gloucester Brewery, and Cheltenham Festivals.
You’ll develop your skills as a professional communicator through exciting project-based learning. Our students form strong bonds through our workshop-style teaching sessions, which replicate the workplace and enable you to develop confidence, practical skills, and build a great team.
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you’ll also build strong multimedia skills, from podcasting in professional studios to creating video and digital content using industry-standard kit. This hands-on training will help you develop into confident, digital first journalist, ready to work across modern platforms.
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