We are delighted to be part of three exciting events to round-off the 25-26 academic year!

These events are open to all screen educators and include a free visit to Sky Up Academy Studios, Elstree, and online Film & Media Education Conference in partnership with Into Film and Media Education Association, plus our final end of year FREE celebration event in partnership with the English Media Centre.

As we enter the last few weeks of 2025, we want to thank our fantastic network members and everyone who has supported us to deliver our free CPD events, resources, and community this year.

At the time of writing, we are a few members shy of 850 screen educators, careers advisors, and industry specialists from across the UK. The Film & TV Educators Network is now reaching further than ever before, and in 2026, we aim to expand our events even further.

During my time at university, many of my class had just seen The Departed (2006), and we shared with one of our lecturers how much we’d enjoyed it. Her response was to laugh at us and imply we were idiots because none of us had seen the original film, Infernal Affairs (2002). Now, as a teacher myself, I can understand her frustration, but I can also see an opportunity for her to engage with us about something we were excited to explore. As you might imagine, her response to my excitement didn’t encourage me to watch Infernal Affairs, and also didn’t encourage me to continue to share my opinions in the classroom.

Our final blog post in the series, Teaching Production Management in Practice: Radios, outlines an introduction to radio etiquette on set.

You can download the full four-week resources from our resources page.

Thank you to Into Film, Ben Murrell and Rebecca Knapp for providing exceptional CPD sessions for teachers, exploring everything from script and story structure, to script coverage reporting and copyright.

Our resources this week provide a listening task to introduce students to the realities of listening while listening: listening to information from two sources at once. Combining this with our previous resources on Radio Lingo and Using Radios gives students a true sense of the on-set experience.

Practicing these elements before getting to set will help improve their confidence, and testing their knowledge will ensure they feel comfortable with each part of the process.

Students may ask why a mobile phone isn’t just as good as a radio for on set communication. This is an excellent starting point when introducing the use of radios on set.

Using radios effectively and understanding the correct etiquette on set enhances a student’s skills on set and also gives them more confidence to walk into professional scenarios as they are equipped for their surroundings.

To support teaching students on-set radio lingo, we have created an approachable teaching sheet for students, as well as a practical knowledge test sheet which asks students to test what they’ve learned.

by Jamie Waller

Technical and vocational training has to be one pillar of our approach. We need technical people who can code, who can build and maintain data centres, who can design the user interfaces through which people access AI services. We need to train them to use Large Language Models such as ChatGPT, so they can prompt them effectively to get the outcomes they want, and verify and critically analyse the information they’re given.