York produces world-class graduates across the cultural and technological disciplines, but opportunities to stay and build a career in the city can be limited. Our ambition is that York’s creative and cultural sectors thrive and contribute to strengthening and diversifying York’s economy: through universities and colleges providing clear routes to skilled employment, and creative workspaces attracting and retaining creative talent in the city.
Through York’s Creative Future, the York Culture Strategy 2020-2025, we are working to ensure:
For more information, please read the full strategy here.
Both universities in York offer opportunities such as internships and work experience to nurture talent development in the creative fields, often contributing to or covering the student’s wages for organisations of a certain size. For further information on internships available to employers, please see the following: