Arts leaders back mentoring scheme for graduate women
High profile arts leaders have signed up to the new ‘University Women in the Arts’ scheme, which will offer one-to-one…
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Wales embraces arts in new national curriculum
Details of Welsh Government proposals for embedding the arts in the new curriculum have been put out to consultation prior to bein…
Time to walk the talk
Frustrated with the decline of arts and creative subjects in schools, Nick Corston gave up his day job to form a not-for-profit en…
No school ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ without arts, says ACE
Arts Council England has told Ofsted that schools without a strong arts offer should be classified as ‘requiring improvement…
A seat at the table
Challenging the notion of a ‘hard-to-reach community’ in Luton, Imrana Mahmood explores the need to create pathways th…
The arts in a backpack
An Action for Children’s Arts study recommends that every child at primary school should have five quality arts experiences…
Creative education scheme engages two-thirds of Welsh schools
A new report reveals the impact of Wales’ arts-based creative learning programme as it enters its final year of funding.
Inspiring tomorrow’s classical composers
Contemporary classical music aligns naturally with children's playful approach to sound, says Nancy Evans.
UK institutions collaborate on ‘virtual conservatoire’
A digital project will enable real-time collaboration across a consortium of six leading training institutions for performing arti…
An art programme for everyone
Emma Edmondson introduces an alternative postgraduate art programme, designed to fit around the lives and bank balances of today&r…
Music teachers on course to gain workers’ rights
Music teachers should be treated as ‘workers’ and provided with holiday pay, national minimum wage and whistle-blower…
Five projects to lead £5m performing arts skills programme
Croydon, Plymouth, Derby, Salford and Medway are to share government funding to teach children on- and off-stage skills to improve…
Music in schools an ‘ever more urgent necessity’
A major new report makes recommendations for policymakers in the UK and globally on how to improve the quality of the music educat…
Listening to children on climate change
What does climate change mean to the generation it will impact most? Brad McCormick explains how primary schoolchildren have been…
Temporary pension hike reprieve for music education hubs
Arts Council England warns that without extra funding, rising teacher pension costs could eat up to 10% of a hub’s budget in…
MPs to examine effectiveness of arts activities in First World War commemorations
A DCMS inquiry will assess whether arts and education initiatives were more successful than traditional approaches in connecting w…
Young people ‘overwhelmingly positive’ about creative writing
An evaluation of a three-year scheme finds writing programmes should prioritise writing for pleasure, rather than trying to improv…
T levels ‘will fail without 25% increase in student funding’
The Association of Colleges warns that the skills gap will continue to widen and UK prosperity will be at further risk without an…
Connecting urban children with nature
Megg Nicol and Alan Rickett explain how a musical has helped raise awareness of the importance of trees among London primary schoo…
Report challenges Minister’s claim of ‘stable’ arts GCSE takeup
An analysis of the Department for Education’s own figures finds that since 2014, the proportion of students taking music GCS…
Exclusive: Music A level denied to ever more students
A student’s academic ability and the wealth of their parents are key indicators of the likelihood that they will get the cha…
How did we get here?
The over-hyping of projects, initiatives and schemes really grates at a time when creative education in schools is being systemati…
Making Hull’s impact last
Hull’s year as UK City of Culture may be over, but a partnership between the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the University…
Primary schools lament decline in arts provision
A new report calls for an arts education premium for every primary school to address worsening lesson quality and offer opportunit…
