The BBC Academy, launched in December 2009, is the BBC’s centre for training. It houses the Colleges of Journalism, Production, Leadership and the Centre of Technology. It focuses on providing a portfolio of high quality training and development. This includes face-to-face courses, online programmes and a variety of development initiatives, so that training is relevant and effective for both the individual and the business.

As well as training BBC staff, The Academy also has a remit under the terms of the BBC's Charter Agreement to train the wider industry. it aims to share as much of its training as possible for free. It also offers some courses on a commercial basis, both within the UK and abroad.

The College of Journalism provides a single, integrated home for all journalism training and development. It delivers editorial standards and legal training and core journalist craft skills as well as leading on international training. The College of Journalism’s website www.bbc.co.uk/journalism is a unique resource which has over 2,000 pages of text and around 1,500 films, audio and interactive exercises, making it one of the largest online resourcea of its type in the world. It’s free throughout the UK, or available by subscription outside the UK.

Christopher Jarvis Haley Hogwood CBE, MA (Cantab), HonMusD (Cantab), born 10 September 1941, Nottingham, is an English conductor, harpsichordist, writer and musicologist, well known as the founder of the Academy of Ancient Music.

Hogwood studied music and classical literature at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He went on to study performance and conducting under Raymond Leppard and Thurston Dart; and later with Rafael Puyana and Gustav Leonhardt. He also studied in Prague with Zuzana Ruzickova for a year, under a British Council scholarship.

In 1967, Hogwood founded the Early Music Consort with David Munrow, and in 1973 he founded the Academy of Ancient Music, specializing in performances of baroque and early classical music with period instruments. The Early Music Consort was disbanded following Munrow's death in 1976, but Hogwood continued to perform and record with the Academy of Ancient Music.

Since 1981, Hogwood has conducted regularly in the United States. He served as Artistic Director of Boston's Handel and Haydn Society from 1986 to 2001, and since then has held the title of Conductor Laureate. From 1983 to 1985 Hogwood was artistic director of the Mostly Mozart Festival in the Barbican Centre in London. From 1988 to 1992, he was musical director of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in Minnesota.

Charlie Sloth is a hip hop artist who was born and raised in Camden Town, North London, England.^{[citation needed]}

Sloth become known for his "Cant forget about UK" track which named pioneers such as MC Duke, Stereo MC's and TY.^{[citation needed]} He also made a remix which featured TY, Stereo MC's, Mc Duke, PRM, Funky DL and many other Pioneers.^{[citation needed]}

Sloth's music career started on London's Pirate radio Stations such as Raw FM, Freek FM and Flex FM where he was best known for his pranks.^{[citation needed]}

In 2007 he won "Most original Video" at the CraveFest awards Canada for his music video "Guided Tour of Camden", which is just what it says, and in which he calls Camden High Street "the mile of murder", and describes the crimes of "the Camden Ripper", murderer Anthony Hardy.

Sloth has also collaborated with US artists such as Craig G.^{[citation needed]}

He is a DJ on BBC Radio 1Xtra, presenting the Hip Hop mix show from 1am - 4am on Saturday mornings, and the Saturday mid-morning show. This show has been important in launching the careers of UK MCs (such as Lowkey) through his "Fire In The Booth" feature.

Richard Ellef Ayoade ( /aɪ.oʊˈɑːdeɪ/, eye-oh-WA-dee, born 12 June 1977) is a British comedian, actor, writer and director, best known for his role as Maurice Moss in The IT Crowd.

Ayoade was born in Whipps Cross, London, an only child to a Norwegian mother, Dagny (née Baassuik), and a Nigerian father, Layide Ade Laditi Ayoade. Ayoade studied at St. Joseph's College in Ipswich, Suffolk and later studied law at St Catharine's College, Cambridge (1995–1998) where he won the Martin Steele Prize for play production and was president of the Footlights from 1997 to 1998.

While in Footlights, Ayoade acted in and wrote many shows. He and Footlights vice-president John Oliver wrote two pantomimes together: Sleeping Beauty, and Grimm Fairy Tales. Ayoade acted in both Footlights' 1997 and 1998 touring shows: Emotional Baggage and Between a Rock and a Hard Place (directed by Cal McCrystal).

Ayoade co-wrote the stage show Garth Marenghi's Fright Knight with Matthew Holness, whom he also met at the Footlights, appearing in the show at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2000 where it was nominated for a Perrier Award. In 2001 he won the Perrier Comedy Award for co-writing and performing in the sequel to Fright Knight, Garth Marenghi's Netherhead.