Creative skills are skills of tomorrow, not just today. The UK’s world-leading higher education providers and the courses they deliver are a crucial part of what’s needed to secure a strong pipeline of workers with creative skills, within and beyond the creative industries.
There are now endless commentaries that paint a picture of our future industries: trends toward automation, the adoption of new tech, e-commerce and remote working mean that by 2030, up to 30-40% of all workers in developed countries may need to move into new occupations or at least upgrade their skill sets significantly. 85% of jobs that will exist in 2030 haven’t been invented yet, and 50% of people think that the roles and skills of the next 10-15 years are impossible to predict within their industry. Creative jobs have been found to be future-proof for this reason, and the creative industries – with their high volume of micro businesses, freelancers and highly-skilled project-based work – an archetype of the fourth industrial revolution. Creative skills are skills of tomorrow, not just today.
The UK’s world-leading higher education providers and the courses they deliver are a crucial part of what’s needed to secure a strong pipeline of workers with creative skills, within and beyond the creative industries. 71% of the UK’s creative workforce holds a qualification to degree level or higher compared with 44% for the whole economy.
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