Thursday, April 3 2025 · 7 – 8:15pm GMT. Online.
Cultural Learning Alliance’s second annual Report Card distils CLA evidence work and reporting into a clear set of five annual indicators, based – as far as possible – on national time series data drawn from government data sets.
In this new edition, we’ve broadened the scope of these annual indicators to include new data on Arts vocational qualifications and what we are terming the ‘Arts entitlement gap.’
Key questions addressed in this year’s Report Card edition include:
- Has the trajectory of Arts decline in schools revealed by CLA in 2024 continued?
- Are there are any reasons to be cheerful this year in terms of Arts subject take-up?
- Has take-up of Arts vocational qualifications – such as BTECs – increased as Arts GCSE take-up has declined?
- What is happening to Arts teacher recruitment?
- And what is the important social justice issue that is revealed by this year’s data?
A full recording of the webinar can be accessed below.
Speaker: Baz Ramaiah, CLA Report Card 2025 author and CLA Policy & Evidence Associate
Chair: Jacqui O’Hanlon MBE, Deputy Executive Director & Director of Creative Learning & Engagement, Royal Shakespeare Company – and CLA Evidence Associate
Panellists: CLA Co-Chairs Derri Burdon and Sally Bacon OBE; Geoff Barton CBE, former General Secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, and Chair of the Commission on Oracy Education; Ed Harlow, Vice President, National Education Union and music teacher; Janet Goodier, Deputy Headteacher at Stanley High School, Southport.
CLA’s Report Card 2025 is authored by Baz Ramaiah and can be read here.
This is the second in a CLA series of webinars focusing on the Expressive Arts in schools.
