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studionews UNITED KINGDOM
New UK engineering qualifications on way
BY Erica Basnicki
THE UK’S Creative & Cultural Skills (CCS), Joint Audio Media Education Support (JAMES) and City & Guilds are working in partnership to develop new qualifications in sound engineering and music technology. The qualifications are based
on the recently developed National Occupational Standards
set by the music industry. This work has also enabled
an apprenticeship framework to be developed at Levels 2 and 3. The aim of the framework is to attract new people into sound engineering and music technology from a wide range of backgrounds. The framework will provide apprentices with the skills employers need, and create a career pathway within and
WORLD Gibson acquires TEAC
GIBSON GUITAR Corp, the guitar and musical instrument manufacturer, has agreed to make a strategic investment in Japan’s TEAC Corporation, the parent of Tascam. The all-cash tender offer
Tascam’s DM-3200 digital mixing console
to purchase 157.447 million shares of TEAC common stock (equal to 54.4% of all issued and outstanding shares) for 31 Japanese Yen per share in cash commenced
on 1 April 2013 and remained open as PSNEurope went to press.
Upon completion of the acquisition, TEAC will become a member of the Gibson family, which includes the KRK, Cerwin-Vega! and Stanton brands, in addition to the premium consumer electronics of last year’s strategic partnership with Onkyo Corporation.
across the music industry. It will also entitle SME employers to limited grant support towards each intern. “This suite of NOS
qualifications will offer 16+ and 19+ creative career choices never before offered,” said Phil Harding, JAMES chair. “I am particularly pleased to see the JAMES, CCS, City & Guilds supported qualifications enable the small creative audio SME
Phil Harding: JAMES chair
and larger music groups to take on new staff, while off-site training is offered for via JAMES-approved FE networks.”
The apprenticeships are due to be available from September 2013. n
www.jamesonline.org.uk
157.447m
shares to be purchased
In a statement issued in April, Gibson said the move was “another step in Gibson’s aim to become the largest music and sound business in the world with the ability to deliver an uncompromising entertainment experience to the customer, spanning musical instruments to the most innovative recording and audiovisual devices”. n
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