09 December 2019 Policy and Practice round-up December 2019 This month we bring you news of the OECD PISA results and the news that England will be opting out of the 2021 creative thinking test; the Frankfurt declaration for arts education; arts education manifestos; election lobbying; and the £50,000 Fusion Prize.
27 November 2019 General Election 2019 manifestos What do they mean for arts, culture and learning? In this briefing we will compare and contrast the policies most relevant to cultural learning in the Labour, Liberal Democrat and Conservative Manifestos.
13 November 2019 Making the Case for Cultural Learning in the 2019 General Election After some months of turbulence, a general election has now been called for the 12 December. This post details six different ways that you can help to make the case for the arts and cultural learning in this landscape.
13 November 2019 Policy and Practice round-up November 2019 This month we bring you news of the new £9,000 Art & Design PGCE bursary; cultural learning election manifestos; DfE analysis of GCSE entries and new guidance on Character Education; plus international practice, research and advocacy links.
15 October 2019 Durham Commission report is published The Durham Commission on Creativity and Education has today launched a report and recommendations for the promotion of creativity in education in England.
07 October 2019 New Briefing Paper – The Arts for Every Child Today we launch our new Briefing The Arts for Every Child: why arts education is a social justice issue.
30 September 2019 Pauline Tambling reflects on 20 years of cultural learning in England The CLA’s recent summary of cultural education policies over the last 20 years reminds me of a personal milestone.
25 September 2019 Cultural Learning in England: 20 years of policy This would seem the perfect time to look back over the last 20 years of cultural learning policy in England: the initiatives, the funding, the key players and the changing policy climate.
04 September 2019 Policy and Practice round-up September 2019 This month we bring you news of three former education secretaries calling for the end of the EBacc; Bob and Roberta Smith calling for every child to study an arts GCSE; DfE removing the Facilitating Subjects reference on the EBacc webpage; MP Ed Vaizey calling for arts at the heart of the curriculum; details of all the new Arts and Education Ministers; two reports from the Sutton Trust and Teacher Tapp, and the Nuffield Foundation, on teacher recruitment; that Arts subjects are the most likely to be taught by specialist teachers in secondary schools; and Arts qualifications being de-funded.
22 August 2019 Further drop in arts GCSE and A Level entries for 2019 -38% decline in arts GCSE entries 2010 to 2019 -4% year-on-year drop in arts GCSEs 2018 to 2019 -29% decline in arts A Level entries 2010 to 2019