20 December 2017 CLA Briefing: Government Social Mobility announcements, Winter 2017 In the last month we have heard a lot from government and the press about Social Mobility. This post gives you the headlines of both the recent Social Mobility Commission Report, and the Department of Education’s Social Mobility Strategy.
01 December 2017 Developing a STEAM school Blog from Head Teacher of Aureus School Hannah Wilson on developing a STEAM school.
29 November 2017 Industrial Strategy White Paper is published On the 27 November the Government published its long-awaited Industrial Strategy White Paper: setting out plans to boost the economy and the productivity of the UK. You can download the full document here and the rest of the launch materials here.
29 November 2017 Budget November 2017: what does it mean for cultural learning? On Wednesday 22 November the Chancellor, Phillip Hammond, presented a budget that laid out the Government’s spending plan for the next year. You can read his speech and the full suite of budget documents.
15 November 2017 Ofsted Chief Inspector Amanda Spielman: importance of a broad curriculum On 11 October Amanda Spielman, Chief Inspector for Ofsted, gave a speech on the key findings of their recent curriculum research. This first phase was to investigate how much the new common inspection framework, due to be in place by September 2019, should change to look more closely at curriculum.
15 November 2017 Policy and Practice round-up November 2017 This month we bring you news of the RSA Learning about Culture launch, ‘Caring about Cultural Freedom’ from A New Direction, ‘Life Lessons’ from the Sutton Trust, the Museums Review, consultation on the Culture Strategy for Scotland, the Artsmark partnership programme, evidence that the Arts & Culture industry has grown by 10% in a year and resources to help advocate for Cultural Learning.
26 October 2017 STEAM Briefing published with Nesta A new briefing published jointly today by the Cultural Learning Alliance and Nesta sets out the need to shift the policy focus on STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) by adding the A of arts – turning STEM into STEAM.
28 September 2017 Policy and Practice round-up September 2017 This month we bring you news of the House of Lords EBacc debate, teacher training places, the Sutton Trust report Extra Time, OECD conference on creativity at Durham, Sir Peter Bazelgette’s Independent Review of the Creative Industries, School Funding and the Fun Palaces weekend.
21 September 2017 New report: Entries to arts subjects at Key Stage 4 Today the Education Policy Institute published a report Entries to arts subjects at Key Stage 4, in which it has analysed entries to arts subjects between 2007 and 2016.
24 August 2017 GCSE results announced today see a continuing free fall in arts subject entries -9% drop in arts GCSE entries 2016 to 2017 -28% drop in arts GCSE entries 2010 to 2017