Your industry is changing. Education needs to keep pace.
New technologies, changing consumer expectations and evolving business models are continually reshaping the skills employers need. Working directly with industry helps us understand those changes and translate them into relevant learning experiences for our students.
Your organisation can contribute its expertise and perspective – helping ensure future talent is better prepared for the opportunities and challenges they'll encounter at work.

Bring your industry expertise into education
There are different ways to help shape the skills and knowledge emerging talent develops. Share your expertise, highlight changing industry needs and work with us to ensure learning stays connected to the realities of fashion, retail and beauty.
Shape curriculum and course content
Share insight into the skills, knowledge and capabilities your organisation needs, helping us keep learning relevant to the realities of the industry. Support with curriculum consultation, reviewing course content, identifying emerging skills requirements and contributing sector expertise.
Bring real industry challenges into learning
Help students understand how their learning translates into the workplace by contributing real business perspectives, challenges and examples. Ensure education is representative of the real industry through industry briefs, case studies, specialist input or employer-led content.
Contribute to industry and skills development
Join wider conversations about the capabilities your sector will need in the future, sharing your perspective alongside other employers and education specialists. Become a part of industry advisory panels, consult on new apprenticeship provision or share your input on occupational skills.
Why get involved?
- Influence future skills
Help ensure emerging talent develops capabilities relevant to your organisation and sector. - Bring industry and education closer together
Help close the gap between what people learn and what employers need. - Prepare for changing capability needs
Share emerging skills requirements before they become established recruitment challenges. - Demonstrate industry leadership
Play an active role in developing the next generation of your profession.
Help shape what's next
If your organisation has insight into the skills, knowledge or capabilities your industry will need next, we'd like to hear from you. Talk to our team about how you can contribute to developing future talent.