ACE partners on business case for Midlands musical theatre centre
Arts Council England (ACE) is partnering with universities, local authorities and cultural organisations in Birmingham to commissi…
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Music Masters names new chair
Music Masters has appointed STUART MASON chair of its board of trustees, replacing SIMON FREAKLEY, who has stepped down after twel…
Central School layoffs scheme could open next month
Central School of Speech and Drama (CSSD) has revealed that a proposed voluntary redundancy scheme, which it is currently consulti…
National Youth Theatre and Microsoft team up on AI workshops
The National Youth Theatre (NYT) is partnering with Microsoft to offer a national programme of free workshops to help young people…
Civic role of universities improves access to the arts
As the first Associate Director of Arts and Culture at the University of Southampton, and the Director of Turner Sims concert hall…
Starmer: Everyone ‘deserves chance to be touched by art’
Prime Minister Keir Starmer uses Labour Party conference speech to re-emphasise his aim to improve accessibility to arts and cultu…
Creative education in London gets £3.6m boost
Programme aims to address barriers that have discouraged and prevented cultural education and arts in schools from thriving.
Building school-museum connections
As the new academic year gets underway, Robert Dingle reflects on how collaboration between museums and schools can provide a rich…
Bryant seeks to ‘rescue arts from financial black hole’
Speaking at a fringe event at the Labour Party conference, Arts Minister Chris Bryant sets out his intention to 'transform'…
Increase arts’ share of lottery cash, thinktank urges
Additional funding would help arts and heritage organisations deal with the 'crisis in capital funding of cultural and heritag…
Library Campaign lodges complaint against Croydon to DCMS
The Library Campaign has submitted a formal complaint to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) against London Borough…
DfE launches £5.8m music education programme
Young Sounds UK will work in collaboration with local Music Hub partners to deliver the four-year programme.
ACW temporarily closes two funding streams for review
Arts Council Wales has announced it is pausing two funding schemes targeted at educators and learners for review. The Go and See a…
A juggling act
Last month Mark Langley began his new role as Principal of The Scottish Institute of Theatre, Dance, Film and Television. Here he…
Bath council to offer free school visits at heritage sites
Bath & North East Somerset Council has launched a new scheme to enable more school children from across the country to visit t…
School curriculum review ‘facing dilemmas and trade-offs’
The government has pledged to make art central to a child's education, but the person in charge of a review of the school curr…
School librarians asked to remove books, including LGBTQ+ titles
More than half of UK school librarians have been asked to remove certain books from circulation, a new survey suggests – with…
Music education ‘must adapt to industry demands’
A report has called for music education to incorporate practical and industry-relevant content and focus on skills such as network…
Entries for arts A-levels down nearly a third since 2010
Campaign for the Arts says "urgent action" is needed from the new government to halt the decline in popularity of arts A…
National Centre for Children’s Literature to close
Scottish venue which opened in 2019 in the building which helped inspire author JM Barrie to write Peter Pan has been losing money…
Music education hubs: final two lead organisations named
Hub lead organisations in South West London and South Yorkshire have been announced ahead of the start of the new music hub invest…
Applications to technical theatre courses on the rise
Leading drama schools have reported an increase in applications to technical and backstage courses in the past 12 months. London A…
What have creative practices ever done for us?
Some humanities subjects have been declared obsolete and – by extension – useless areas of education and research. Mig…
Action plan to ‘take back control’ of creative education
Sector bodies say arts education should be recognised as a 'vital component' in growing the economy.
