News

This month we bring you news of the RSC/Tate Time to Listen report on the impact of arts-rich schools; a House of Lords debate on music education; a £5m fund for youth performance networks; the Pisa 2021 test on creative thinking; a Frieze magazine article on the ‘extinction’ of arts in schools; a STEAM report from US National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, and a DASER STEAM event.

In her speech to SCHOOLS NE on 11 October Amanda Spielman, Chief Inspector of Ofsted, set out the plans and proposals for the new inspection framework that will come in to effect in September 2019.

Arts Council England (ACE) is consulting on its next 10 year strategy which will run from 2020 to 2030. The strategy will guide ACE’s development, advocacy and investment (read funding) decisions.

This month we bring you news of eight different media pieces on the value of arts and the current decline of the arts in schools; a roundtable with Prince Charles; Baroness Deborah Bull’s maiden speech on careers in the arts; the new Civil Society Strategy; and guidance on setting up a makerspace.

New toolkit to make the case for arts in your local schools

As part of our commitment to champion the right of every child to the arts and culture, a key CLA focus for the academic year 2018-2019 will be on social justice.

As the school year starts we publish our latest Briefing paper, in partnership with ASCL the Association of School and College Leaders, setting out why the arts matter in our education system.

-10% decline in arts subject GCSE entries 2017 to 2018

-35% decline in arts subject GCSE entries 2010 to 2018

Continuing decline in arts A Levels: entries down -24% since 2010

This month we bring you news of Damian Hinds Education Secretary’s social mobility speech; a report looking at practices that cause the ‘London effect’; a Curriculum Fund update; ASCL’s survey showing a lack of funding forcing cuts to arts subjects at A Level; a new collaborative Centre for Cultural Value; and the Group for Education in Museums 70^th anniversary conference.