An acclaimed headteacher said that ringfenced funding for arts subjects will amount to ‘throwing money down the hole’…

Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Education Lord Agnew said that arguments for  music to be viewed as a ‘facilitating s…

6,000 students from across England shared why and how they engage in cultural activity, with a quarter saying that their school in…

What exactly do we mean by creativity, and how will the UK measure up when the world education league tables start assessing it in…

Campaigners against the EBacc have welcomed the move, but say it will not be enough on its own to save arts subjects.

Female entries for GCSE music outnumbered those from males by almost 4,000 in 2017/18, compared to just 764 five years ago.

As performance targets squeeze the arts to the margins of the curriculum, only the most courageous of state schools are continuing…

The number of exams sat in arts subjects was down 10% on last year despite an increase in overall entries, and a faster increase s…

The sharp warning from the Association of School and College Leaders comes as A-level data reveals the decline in entries for arts…

Many children steer well clear of opera, but the artform has allowed primary school pupils in Norfolk to discover new heights of c…

Clare Edwards argues that commercial organisations can extend access to music education – without compromising on quality.

A new cultural curriculum in Bristol aims to reverse the decline in arts education. Phil Castang explains how the creative arts ca…

ISM Chief Executive Deborah Annetts told peers the current selection of ‘facilitating subjects’ was not based on evide…

9,000 secondary school arts teachers have left their jobs in England since 2011.

The fall in entry numbers for GCSE arts subjects has reached record levels, but an Ofqual report understates dramatic losses in de…

The newly appointed National Lead for Visual and Performing Arts said she would wait to hear the views of inspectors from across t…

Over 100,000 children a year will lose the chance to study the arts when the EBacc becomes compulsory in schools, and the least pr…

Figures reveal that children living in the most deprived areas and those with lower attainment are the most likely to lose their o…

New research revealing declining exam entries for arts subjects comes as Education Minister Lord Nash denies that arts take-up in…

GCSE pupils are choosing not to study art and design becasue of government messaging around the EBacc, a survey of Norfolk schools…

The number of students taking EBacc subjects at GCSE has risen by 8%.

Last week’s A level results appear to confirm a feared knock-on effect of the introduction of the EBacc at GCSE level.

In its long-overdue response to a public consultation on the implementation of the EBacc, the Government has ignored calls for a b…