The latest report on the state of arts education in the UK. Glad to see it supports the special funding for drama schools; but more importantly its recognition of the importance of the role of arts education today. The full report can be found here, but there’s a useful summary at the Cultural Learning Alliance:
The Cultural Learning Alliance.
About Julian
I have a freelance practice as an Arts Education consultant. I retired from being Director of Community Outreach at Rose Bruford College in 2011, having worked there from 1982. Most of that time I was teaching in or around stage management, arts admin and technical theatre. I used to be programme director for the BA Stage Management, and designed the foundation degree in Organising Live Arts.
I worked closely with the National Council for Drama Training; with the National Skills Academy for Creative and Cultural; and with Creative Way and the National Arts Learning Networks in developing standards and access to arts training.
Having trained as a teacher, I spent ten years at the start of my career working in theatre, mostly in rep and community..
I'm politically active in Dartford Labour Party; and interested in issues of cultural representation, whether on the basis of class, ethnicity or any other cultural identity.
My expertise, such as it is, is that of a firestarter. I enjoy linking up apparently random ideas or people, and seeing what comes from the conversations. I seem to be able to enthuse people, to inspire, and to give heart, making things seem possible that people may have doubted. Some of this is through clowning, never believing that matters are so serious that gentle good humour can't be used to improve them.
