Links to Vocational and University Courses on Multimedia

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Short Courses | Full-time | International | USA | Australia

UK Short Professional Courses

ATSF	We offer a short course on project management based on the book Managing Multimedia
Aquent	Central London based company with short courses as one of their strands. They emphasise the low pupil-teacher ratio in their seminars.
Aztec IT Training	Aztec cover graphics and programming courses for web design and development in London.
BBC Training and Development	The world's leading broadcaster (IMHO) now not only uses interactive media but trains people in it as well. Large portfolio of craft/hard and soft skills.
Birkbeck College	The famous Birkbeck in London offers a Diploma in New Media Management and a Diploma in Web Design and Development, both run for professionals over alternate Saturdays. This link takes you to their web site where you can request further information.
CIM e-Marketing Award	30 hour course offered over 5 days of 10 evenings.
jb International	JB have London-based courses geared more to the technical and programming aspects of development than graphical.
Media Training	Have a flexible and interesting span of interactive media-related courses. These range from M-commerce, and Marketing on the Web, to Cold Fusion and Director. This company is London based.
Metro New Media	Metro is a centre based in London offering a variety of multimedia short courses.
New Media Knowledge Group	NMK are based at the University of Westminster in London, offer a range of information, contacts and useful events including short courses.
OCR	iMedia qualifications for aspiring young digital media people.
The Advanced Learning Technology Programme	This programme is based at Lancaster University and offers a modular distance course that can lead to a diploma. The course is designed for specialists concerned with learning and the use of technology. They also offer occasional short 'events'.
Silicon Beach	Brighton (UK) based computer, business and management training providers with a wide-ranging and impressive portfolio.
University of the Arts, London	Services to professionals and business: Interactive and Digital Media. Several short courses for professionals.
University of North London	This university offers a range of short courses including WAP, XML and databases for community health professionals.

UK Full-time University and Higher Education Courses (including Post Graduate)

UCAS	Universities and Colleges Admissions Service lists about 500 Multimedia courses in the UK. This is a good, well maintained site. Search by subject area and region. Also look under terms like Web, Internet and Interactive as well.
Barnsley College Multimedia Lab	Barnsley College, in Lancashire - offers HNDs and Honours courses in Multimedia.
Post Graduate	The official post graduate site.
Education UK	The British Council's Education UK site. Go to the links section via the left-hand menu for lots more useful pointers.
Hobsons Postgrad	Postgrad courses with a search facility.

International

SAE Institute

This organisation started in Australia but now offers professional media training around the world, including multimedia. Note the Multimedia Producer Diploma course and Multimedia Arts Degree. This latter is validated by Middlesex University in the UK.You need to select your country from an extensive listing on the home page to see what courses are offered where and with what timing. There is often a choice of daytime or evening sessions.SAE stands for School of Audio Engineering.

USA

San Francisco State University - Multimedia Studies Program	Excellent, very comprehensive selection of courses. Categories include Authoring, Design, The Business of Multimedia
Bloomsburg University	Bloomsburg, in Pennsylvania has an interesting course which centres on theories of learning and instructional design.

Australia

The government and Dept. for Employment, Education and Training has established co-operative MM centres. Nice sites. Good initiative. Some listed here.

ASISM	Australian School of Industry Service Management provide fully-accredited training in all areas of the service industries.
Vandersound in Brisbane	A lively site which offers 14 modules of digital and interactive content.
Imago Multimedia Centre, Western Australia	Courses by category found under Programs. Also good links through to education courses in Western Australia.
Centre for Interactive Multimedia	Postgrad courses James Cook University, North Queensland.
Digital Media - Sydney, New South Wales	Loads of short courses offered around Australia in advanced production skills in conjunction with the Australian Film, Television and Radio School.

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