Warning over misuse of creative apprenticeships
Using apprenticeships to take on graduates employers would hire anyway is putting diversity at risk, an expert has cautioned.
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‘We are the wind’: discover the real factors behind change
When leaders make personal change, organisational changes inevitably follow, says Richard Watts.
Quotas alone won’t achieve gender equality
Setting targets helps, but wider strategies are needed to dispel the sense of novelty value that still surrounds female musicians….
Arts professionals recognised in New Year honours
The former Director of Birmingham Royal Ballet and former Managing Director of Edinburgh International Festival are among those wh…
Caring for the carers
Providing opportunities for creativity shouldn’t be at the expense of the person delivering them. It’s time to pay att…
ACE treads carefully with ‘intrusive’ new social class metric
Arts Council England will begin collecting data on the socio-economic background of its NPO workforce next year, but will need to…
‘Together we can share the load’: How freelancers and arts organisations can work together
Freelancers have a lot to offer arts organisations – and a lot to learn from them too. Carla Kingham considers what is neede…
Classical music must face up to abuse
Harassment will continue until institutions are willing to take difficult decisions, says Jonathan Knott.
Libraries threatened by incorporation into leisure facilities
As library workers in Bromley enter their sixth consecutive month of strike action, their union has taken aim at the company it cl…
Review launched at Royal Academy of Music following sexual harassment complaints
An expert on sexual misconduct in higher education says the conservatoire’s senior staff must “take the lead in challe…
How can heritage respond to a changing world?
Climate change, activism, funding constraints, policy priorities… How can museums and heritage organisations adjust their p…
A truly national theatre? Exploring new ways to collaborate
National Theatre partnerships with theatres around the country are creating an opportunity for them to share and compare experienc…
Diversity and inclusion: why are we still talking about it?
A reluctance to self-reflect and a tendency to recruit in our own image are at the root of the sector’s failure to employ a…
Second senior Southbank creative lead departs
Head of Programming Tamsin Ace will leave the venue in December, as will Creative Director Madani Younis. Southbank has not confir…
Music management ‘increasingly unsustainable’, report says
New research suggests the expanding role of music managers and an outdated earnings model means “we run the risk of losing m…
Supporting artists, not productions
Helping artists make new work is important, but building longer and deeper relationships with them brings greater rewards for all,…
NPO boss resigns after council orders booking of controversial comedian
Middlesbrough’s Mayor allegedly demanded the Town Hall book Roy Chubby Brown against concerns the show will be offensive and…
Olympic Park cultural quarter already £14m over budget
Auditors warned that urgent action was needed to avert overspending and delays to the project before planning permission for four…
Exit interview: Things I’ve learned about the cultural sector
As she steps down as Editor of the cultural policy journal Cultural Trends, Sara Selwood takes a long hard look at the way the sec…
Research to investigate censorship in the arts
An ArtsProfessional survey will examine whether fear of “biting the hand that feeds” is affecting freedom of expressio…
Is diverse leadership really welcome in the arts?
Madani Younis' exit from Southbank Centre exposes uncomfortable truths about the arts sector's attitude to workforce diver…
York is UK’s most culturally vibrant city, finds EU research
Both Glasgow and Edinburgh were ranked higher than London on a cultural and creative index compiled by the European Commission.
Younis leaves Southbank Centre after less than a year
The venue’s Creative Director has been outspoken on diversity in the sector, warning of the risk of “cultural aparthei…
Smaller museums ‘reticent’ about tax relief scheme
About half of institutions surveyed in Yorkshire and Humber were not claiming or planning to make a claim through the Government i…
