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The BIMM Institute is a group of six independent colleges with over 4,500 students that specialise in the provision of British and Irish Modern Music education in Brighton, Bristol, Dublin, Manchester, Berlin and London. All Colleges focus on full-time Further and Higher Education courses in guitar, drums, bass, songwriting, vocals, music production, music business, event management, live sound & tour management and music teacher training. BIMM was founded in Brighton in 2001 as the Brighton Institute of Modern Music. BIMM Bristol opened in 2008. According to their website in 2010, BIMM Group acquired Tech Music School London (TMS) and in 2011 BIMM Dublin opened and in 2013 the group opened BIMM Manchester. In October 2014 the organisation was renamed the BIMM Institute, British and Irish Modern Music Institute. Tech Music School is now incorporated into BIMM London, based in Fulham. 2012 the Group became a full member of UCAS and the UK Colleges, Brighton, Bristol and London were successfully reviewed by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA). According to BIMM's website in all Higher Education undergraduate courses at BIMM Brighton and BIMM Manchester are validated by the University of Sussex and Post-graduate courses by Middlesex University. Additionally, all level 3 Diploma provision is validated by Edexcel or Rockschool. According to BIMM's website in all Higher Education courses at BIMM Bristol are validated by Bath Spa University and BIMM Dublin courses are validated by Dublin Institute of Technology. BIMM Berlin, and also BIMM London (incorporating Tech Music School) undergraduate provision is validated by University of West London and level 3 Diploma provision is validated by Edexcel. The groups majority shareholder is Sovereign Capital, a mid-market private equity investor specialising in education, healthcare and support services. ==History== BIMM was founded in 2001 by Kevin Nixon, Bruce Dickinson, Damian Keyes and Sarah Clayman. This team subsequently sold the group to Sovereign Capital in March 2010. In January 2012 Adam Carswell was appointed as Managing Director, to lead the management team of Vaseema Hamilton (Principal BIMM Berlin, Brighton, Bristol & London), Dara Kilkenny (Principal BIMM Dublin & Manchester) and Andrew Bates (Director of Academic Quality). In mid 2012 the group appointed Tony Wadsworth CBE (who was head of EMI 1998 - 2008 and was the Chairman of the BPI) and Richard Wheatly, media entrepreneur and current chairman of JazzFM(UK) as Non Executive Directors. In October 2012 the Group appointed a new Finance Director, Nick Frogbrook, and Marketing Director, David O'Connor. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「British and Irish Modern Music Institute」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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