Wales extends creative curriculum until 2025
Wales' action plan for creative learning has been extended until March 2025. Since its launch in 2015, 84% of Welsh schools ha…
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A hard time to be a leader
After a hugely successful eight years at the helm at Mountview, its two directors are handing over the reins. Here, Sarah Preece r…
NI schools funded to work with professional artists
Eleven schools in Northern Ireland will each receive funding to hire professional artists. £15,000 has been awarded by the C…
‘Seismic’ shift towards digital music learning
ABRSM has reported a "seismic" shift towards digital music learning. 64% of children use digital resources to make music…
Classical music inaccessible to less affluent families
A three-year research project aims to improve diversity in classical music, where women remain underrepresented in top roles and 9…
Training programme offers ‘alternative pathway into theatre’
A new two-year training programme will offer a “genuine alternative pathway into theatre” for people from underre…
LIPA makes first acting auditions free
The Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts (LIPA) is making its first round of acting auditions free. The school is also making al…
£1.9m to transform 500 primary school libraries
New investment into the World of Stories programme will target seven areas highlighted as Arts Council England priority places.
Online opera course to take students ‘behind the scenes’
A new online initiative for opera lovers from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama (RWCMD) aims to shed light on the…
Former ballet principal jailed for sexual assaults
Yat-Sen Chang, a former principal dancer at English National Ballet, has been sentenced to nine years' imprisonment for sexual…
ArtsEd admits sexualised culture worsened by ‘failure in leadership’
Principal Chris Hocking has resigned so the drama school can show "how serious we are about transforming our culture" th…
Thousands support art funds for young people petition
A petition urging the Government to keep manifesto promises around arts funding for young people has received more than 20,000 sig…
UNBOXED 2022 offers innovation – and employment
Once derided as the Festival of Brexit, the eight-month mega event will "prove the naysayers wrong".
Arts and higher education: a successful partnership in action
Creating and sharing new knowledge – through teaching, learning, impact and public engagement – lies at the heart of r…
An explosion of creative energy
Universities often lack the resources for large scale art programmes, yet the University of Kent has launched an ambitious cr…
ACE invests £2.78m in cross-curriculum creativity
Eight school networks will develop creativity to inspire long term curriculum change – but not necessarily in arts subjects.
Voice acting school joins LIPA
A voice academy founded mid-pandemic has joined the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA). Bristol Academy of Voice Actin…
Royal Shakespeare Company becomes an official research body
It is the first time a performing arts organisation has achieved the designation, opening opportunities to investigate issues of i…
Safety inspectors shut down Manchester theatre
Manchester’s Grange Theatre has been closed with immediate effect after safety inspectors found faulty electrics a…
BAME students struggle to find creative role models
Two-thirds of Black, Asian and minority ethnic students struggle to find inspirational creative role models. Research co…
Levelling down London’s HE sector
Universities in the capital are set to lose nearly £80m in funding for arts courses. Diana Beech fears this will further wid…
Female performing arts graduates earn more after five years
Female performing arts graduates' earnings outstrip their male counterparts' after five years. The average salary for…
Aberdeen commits to digital music teaching
Aberdeen City Council has approved plans to provide online instrumental lessons for pupils. It first introduced digital music less…
Scotland hires freelancers as arts tutors
Up to 50 freelancers will be employed as arts tutors in some of Scotland's most remote and culturally distinctive communities….
