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GuildHE and UKADIA launch new report ‘The Value of Creative Graduates’

by Tara McNicholas | Jul 18, 2024 | News

GuildHE and UKADIA, with a steering group of creative specialist higher education providers and Creative UK, are today launching a new report ‘The Value of Creative Graduates’ that investigates and addresses the challenges of defining the value of creative graduates....

Creative Industry Alliance petition

by Tara McNicholas | Nov 28, 2023 | News

The Creative Industry Alliance – a group of leaders within the UK’s creative industries – have created a petition addressed to the Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt in response to our Creative Education Manifesto #ArtisEssential. They state that art and design...

#ArtIsEssential campaign coalition launch Creative Education Manifesto

by Tara McNicholas | Sep 21, 2023 | News

Ahead of party conference season, a coalition of creative and higher education organisations have launched their #ArtIsEssential Creative Education Manifesto, calling on all political parties to commit collectively to restoring creative arts education....

National Workshops for Creative Teachers 2023 – now online

by Tara McNicholas | Apr 24, 2023 | News, Publications

National Workshops for Creative Teachers offers the opportunity to take part in an exciting programme of free workshops. They are designed and delivered to inspire new ways of working in the classroom and to give back to the network of school teachers that support...

Trends in creative arts qualifications

by Ben Joseph | Sep 28, 2021 | News

UKADIA, GuildHE and the Head Trust have published new research into the qualification profile of young people entering arts courses in Higher Education. Over the last five years there has been a worrying trend of de-prioritising arts education in schools. The...

IFS report on the government cost of different degrees

by Jack Fleming | Mar 7, 2019 | News, Uncategorised

Yesterday’s IFS report on government spending on higher education by subject singled out creative arts degrees because it estimated their graduates would pay back less of their student loans. The IFS rightly acknowledged some of the limitations of their approach,...