We're committed to promoting real and industry-relevant skills in our industry. So it's only natural that we want to promote people who have passed relevant Industry Assessor training programmes.

An Industry Assessor uses their practical knowledge of the sector to support students seeking to gain vocational qualifications. They are crucial for successful Apprenticeships, and other training programmes and they help ensure that people entering our sector have job-ready skills.

Becoming an Industry Assessor is a great opportunity to use your professional expertise in a different context, to support learning and development in the creative and cultural sector. You can combine your role as an Assessor with your existing job, after taking a qualification known to industry professionals as the 'A1'.

It's vital that Assessors have significant hands-on and up-to-date job experience - and an encyclopaedic knowledge of the creative and cultural industry. We only promote Assessors who do! Our Assessor Pool is available to Further Education organisations - awarding bodies, colleges and training providers - who might be looking for industry professionals to back up their own training provision.

As the number of Apprenticeships in our sector increases, the role of the Assessor becomes ever more important. Here are some of the people taking part: