£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…
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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…
Birmingham Hippodrome launches teacher support initiative
Birmingham Hippodrome has launched a new programme for teachers and educators in the West Midlands in a bid to get more young peop…
ACE commits £1.2m to young people’s initiative in Sunderland
A multi-year programme providing free arts and culture activities to young people in Sunderland has been backed by a £1.196m…
Autumn Statement: Creative industries urge action on arts education
Lack of investment in art and design education is having a 'damaging impact' on one of the UK’s most successful sect…
Exclusive: Creative and Cultural Skills to close
Loss of core Arts Council England funding a significant factor in the decision to close organisation established 18 years ago…
Music teacher training bursaries set to return
The Department for Education has announced that trainee music teachers at secondary level will be entitled to a bursary of £…
Creativity classes boost confidence of pupils and teachers
Teaching creativity in primary schools can help students and teachers improve their skills, according to new research funded…
Charity seeks support for musician development programme
A talent development organisation has launched a fundraising appeal to support the next generation of jazz musicians. The Tomorrow…
Treat intimacy co-ordinators like fight directors, says new consent guidance
Bectu and Equity have issued intimacy and consent guidance for drama schools, recognising the widespread use of intimacy practitio…
‘Institutional change’ needed to boost creative sector diversity
Access to creative Higher Education courses is ‘highly unequal’ and institutional change is required to improve divers…
