£1m kick-starts National Endowment for Music in Wales
The Welsh Government fund aims to start helping young people develop their musical talents by 2020.
The Welsh Government fund aims to start helping young people develop their musical talents by 2020.
Leicester’s De Montfort University is to collaborate with Arts Council England on a pilot programme and a three-year trial.
Aside from pockets of innovative practice, many arts organisations are at a loss as to how to engage young people, who behave and…
Every child in Scotland will see a performing arts production in their school each year if the National Theatre of Scotland’…
Constrained local authority funding stops talented children progressing and Wales should consider delivering music services centra…
Model skeletons, cubed earwax and mentoring young writers – all in a week’s work for Ministry of Stories’ Oz Yik…
Research justifying the new fund failed to include the biggest and longest running arts education intervention in the world.
How do you get a room full of sniggering teenage boys enthusiastic about dance? Helen Ganberg says it’s not easy, but experi…
The new programme is the second collaboration between the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Public Health Agency.
Women are disproportionately burdened with caring responsibilities, which limit income and opportunities for both employed and sel…
On Takeover Day a group of sixth-form students took responsibility for running an exhibition at London’s Guildhall Art Galle…
As a growing number of children are being home-educated, Christopher Connolly explains how Dance Manchester is reaching out to thi…
A storytelling project that invited young people to challenge the traditional role of libraries culminated in midnight performance…
Andy Dawson explains how the RSC’s schools programme inspires children through Shakespeare while avoiding a ‘one size…
News of the scheme’s holistic benefits follows the announcement of £660k funding to music charities across the country…
Can you teach astrophysics through dance? Academics and dancers in Manchester have been giving it a go. And tackling gender inequa…
Drama is a highly effective teaching tool in schools, so why don’t teachers use it more, asks Luke Hollowell-Williams.
Could arts organisations be doing more to help young people at the start of their careers? Sam Jackman and Mary Olszewska feed bac…
The Creative Industries Federation has laid into Government plans to make the EBacc compulsory, demanding an audit of education an…
Theatre for young audiences has suffered from low status and under-investment, but perceptions of its quality are changing, says N…
How do you teach young people about collective power? A recent arts project involving three schools in Tottenham aimed to do just…
An international collaboration is helping young people with disabilities in the Ukraine get involved in the performing arts and br…
Delivering schemes that close the gap in arts engagement to reach under-represented groups will be the Government’s priority…
A gender gap in children and young people participating in dance, music and drama activities is highlighted in the latest Taking P…