Music licensing organisation to fund East London arts school
Phonographic Performance Limited will financially support programmes at East London Arts & Music that ensure equal access…
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My Gurus: Voices of influence
From radio host to founder of an academy, Melissa Thom has always worked with the voice. Here she pays tribute to some of the insp…
UK Music criticises funding withdrawal for post-16 music
UK Music is calling on Education Secretary Gillian Keegan to halt “damaging” plans to withdraw funding for post-16 mus…
Melvyn Bragg: Arts industry ‘needs radical overhaul’
Labour peer describes UK arts provision as 'dangerously patchy' and calls for 'industrial revolution for the arts'…
Fourth round of Cultural Development Fund opens
A pot of £15.2m will be available for cultural organisations across England in the latest round of funding under the governm…
Royal Ballet School announces regional training hub
Charity says it hopes to open more training hubs across the UK as part of efforts to improve access to dance and grow commercial r…
Opening up career opportunities in the cultural sector
A pioneering educational programme for neurodivergent young people has been given a boost from social impact investment. Seva Phil…
Music in schools initiative gets further ACE funding
An initiative to perform live classical music shows in school playgrounds will tour schools and venues nationwide this year after…
Young Vic arts education scheme helps ‘plug gaps’ in schools
Young Vic's Innovate programme embedded six artists into two local schools to help teachers deliver creative activities as par…
£500k announced for Barnet arts education programme
The charity Barnet Education Arts Trust in North London is to allocate £500k over the next three years to cultural activitie…
Smaller NPOs urged to establish university links
National Portfolio Organisations with the highest levels of public funding three times more likely to be working with universities…
British Youth Music Theatre to relocate to Leeds
National Portfolio Organisation says Yorkshire city's location in the centre of the UK allows good access to partners in Scotl…
Skills programme for underrepresented creatives to launch
A new skills training programme to support creatives looking to break into behind-the-camera roles on scripted film and high-end T…
Rising popularity of arts degrees among Chinese students
A report published by admissions service UCAS says UK universities should take advantage of rising interest in creative arts degre…
Northern Ireland programme brings artists into classrooms
Professional artists will work in classrooms at 11 schools in Northern Ireland as part of two-year programme serving urban ar…
Dance not taught at one in three primary schools
A third of UK primary schools are not teaching dance, despite it being part of the National Curriculum, a report has found. Ofsted…
Peers urge greater opportunity to study creative subjects
A cross-party group of life peers call for accountability measures to be reversed to help buck the decline of exam entries in crea…
Jewish Museum London gets funding for community work
The Jewish Museum London has received more than £200,000 to work in the community ahead of a move to a new building. The Nat…
Music teacher recruitment ‘not good enough’
The Independent Society of Musicians (ISM) has labelled secondary music teacher recruitment as “not good enough” after…
Call for DfE to address music education funding shortfall
The Musicians' Union has written to Education Secretary Gillian Keegan calling for urgent financial support for music educatio…
A trailblazer over four decades
Pauline Tambling, who played a huge role in the arts education and training world for four decades, has died. Her friend and colle…
Sector skills should be funded by employers, not ACE
The announcement last week (14 November) of the closure of Creative & Cultural Skills (CCSkills) was probably inevitable, writ…
Big drop in arts and humanities PhD students
Concerns raised over future diversity and vitality of arts and humanities research as the number of UK-based doctoral students bei…
University students fight to save music department
Students at Oxford Brookes University have launched a petition to save a music course after plans to axe it emerged last week. The…
