Year

A Shopping List for a Creative Childhood

14-10-16
Poet Paul Lyalls covered off the essential ingredients for a creative childhood at our annual conference.

The Creative Childhood Conference, as told by Twitter

12-10-16
See what those in attendance thought of our annual conference.

New £10m fund to get young people more involved in heritage and arts

07-10-16
Also this week: new report says process is vital to excellence in community arts.

Cultural learning ecology: a significant shift in thinking

07-10-16
Information Manager, Annie Thorpe, feeds back on the interesting discussions to come out of our cultural learning ecology roundtable.

How do you make professional development genuinely meaningful?

05-10-16
Guest blogger Greg Klerkx shares his learnings from the Oppi education festival.

Collaboration is key to social mobility, not selection at 11

04-10-16
A New Direction's Chair, Professor Maggie Atkinson, responds to the government's grammar school plan.

Edge Foundation launch alternative to Ebacc

30-09-16
Also this week: white arts workers less likely to favour diversity quotas, and gender imbalance ‘systemic’ in theatre, report suggests.

Cultural Education Challenge catch up: Getting Ready Dance

30-09-16
John Jones from London Youth tells us how his work on the Getting Ready Dance programme has been a valuable learning experience.

Culture as a tool for urban regeneration

27-09-16
Chloe Mcfarlane, a member of our Young Challenge Group, tells us about her inspirational internship and her involvement with the #CultureMakers project

Arts Council England CEO: local arts cuts are bigger concern than Brexit

23-09-16
Also this week: National Theatre launches Brexit verbatim project and Philip Pullman calls for UK to adopt EU plans to protect authors' royalties

Creative place-making, coming to a place near you

23-09-16
Partnerships Director, Holly Donagh, talks about the renewed interest in place-based arts development

The Young People’s Laureate for London

21-09-16
Paul Sherreard from Spread The Word tells us about their new scheme aimed at creating opportunities for young writers across the city

Creativity Works: Film now recruiting

19-09-16
This free, 6 week course offers 17 - 24 year olds the chance to start a career in the film industry.

GCSE results confirm drop in take-up of arts subjects

02-09-16
Also this week: private arts funding appetite to be weighed in £250k experiment, and BFI calls for filmmakers to defy Brexit with creativity

Collectively we can develop our subject further

31-08-16
Kerri Sellens tells us what she's taken away from our CPD programme and how she will be applying this to her upcoming Teachmeet

Number of students taking performing arts drops

26-08-16
Also this week: Sadiq Khan recruiting 'night czar', and London Coliseum hosts ‘first Instagram photocall’

#Lifehacks graphic design workshop

23-08-16
Young graphic designers were given the chance to pitch to NME as part of the upcoming #Lifehacks event with Create Jobs

New opportunities for FE students at the British Museum

22-08-16
Juno Rae, Education Manager: Samsung Digital Learning Programme at the British Museum, tells how the Arts Award was integrated into new programming for further education students.

What's next for the Young Challenge Group?

15-08-16
Lara Stavrinou reflects on the group's involvement so far in the London Cultural Education Challenge.

Cultural Education Challenge catch up: Cultivate

15-08-16
Ana Ospina brings us up to date with the Cultivate education programme.

A new Culture Secretary and new opportunities

12-08-16
The new Culture Secretary used her maiden speech to reaffirm the government's commitment to reaching disadvantaged young people.