BBC to offer 5,000 digital traineeships
The BBC has announced that it is to offer nine week digital traineeships to 5,000 unemployed young people in an effort to boost skills and employment.
A collaboration between the BBC, Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Skills Funding Agency, will see accepted candidates enrolled at the BBC Academy where they will be taught basic coding and programming skills to create simple websites, plan social media campaigns and produce short online videos.
They will then transfer to a work placement to oversee specific challenges such as deconstructing Radio 1’s Wrecking Ball campaign and managing feedback from shows such as The Great British bake Off.
BBC director general Lord Hall said: “We’ve already hit our target of having apprentices make up one per cent of our workforce. I’m immensely proud of that, but we need to keep on showing leadership, and keep on bringing people together in a way which only the BBC can.
“Our new Make it Digital Traineeship is a hugely ambitious partnership, one we hope will unlock Britain’s digital potential and create genuinely life-changing opportunities for young people.”
The BBC Make It Digital Traineeship will commence this summer in partnership with the Department for Work and Pensions and the Skills Funding Agency.