Collection manager

Occupation · ISCO 2621what the job is

Media Studies and Religious Studies at A level, then a Level 7 apprenticeship or a degree.

Closest route from school

Level 7

the nearest apprenticeship standard, a master’s degree · 1 standard and 2 school subjects share ideas with this job · Skills England, ESCO, DfE subject content

Which subjects to pick Schools where they are taken most

Level 7 — England’s qualification levels run 1–8: GCSE is 2, A level is 3, a bachelor’s degree is 6.

At school · Years 9–13

Which subjects build towards it?

2GCSE and A level subjects share ideas with this job; A level Media Studies is the closest

Bar — strength of the overlap relative to the strongest subject (1.00); not a grade or an entry requirement.

DfE subject content · matched to the apprenticeship standards below by sch.today

A level Media Studies1.00

A level Religious Studies1.00

Media Studies leads because the job and the course share the same ideas: audience participation, historical context.

All subjects and shared ideas2

Subject	Match	Shared ideas
A level Media Studies	1.00	audience participation, historical context
A level Religious Studies	1.00	interpretation methodology, historical context

After school · 16–19 and beyond

Which apprenticeships lead here?

1Skills England standard match this job

Apprenticeship standard — the official list of what an apprentice in one job must know and be able to do; the level says how advanced it is. Level 3 can start straight after GCSEs.

Skills England, contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0

CuratorLevel 7 degree apprenticeship · creative and design · closest match · shares manage budgets · ST0782

England

Where are these subjects taken most?

Secondary schools with at least 30 pupils in Year 11, ranked by the share taking Media Studies and Religious Studies, weighted by how strongly each subject leads here.

Ranking — shows what pupils study, not how well a school prepares them for the job.

DfE subject entries

Beechwood SchoolSlough, Slough · A level Media Studies, A level Religious Studies Colonel Frank Seely AcademyNottingham, Nottinghamshire · A level Religious Studies, A level Media Studies St Benet Biscop Catholic AcademyBedlington, Northumberland · A level Media Studies, A level Religious Studies

More schools9

Notre Dame RC SchoolPlymouth, Plymouth · A level Media Studies, A level Religious Studies The Douay Martyrs Catholic SchoolUxbridge, Hillingdon · A level Media Studies, A level Religious Studies Sutton Valence SchoolMaidstone, Kent · A level Media Studies, A level Religious Studies Blessed William Howard Catholic SchoolStafford, Staffordshire · A level Religious Studies Bishop Douglass School FinchleyLondon, Barnet · A level Media Studies, A level Religious Studies Woldingham SchoolCaterham, Surrey · A level Media Studies, A level Religious Studies Joyce Frankland Academy, NewportSaffron Walden, Essex · A level Media Studies Herne Bay High SchoolHerne Bay, Kent · A level Media Studies, A level Religious Studies Becket Keys Church of England Free SchoolBrentwood, Essex · A level Media Studies, A level Religious Studies

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ESCO · 2621

What the job is

Collection managers ensure the care and preservation of objects within cultural institutions, like museums, libraries, and archives. Collection managers, along with exhibition curators, and conservators, play a very important role in collections care. They can be found in most large museums.

This is a model of overlapping content, not careers advice or entry requirements, which employers and training providers set. Occupations and their descriptions: ESCO classification of the European Commission, © European Union. Apprenticeship standards: Skills England, contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. School subjects and entries: Department for Education. Links between them are made by sch.today. Methodology.