From issue 260 News
A 14-month review of qualifications for 14 to 19 year-olds in Wales has rejected the EBacc in favour of retaining GCSEs as the main Key Stage 4 pupil performance measure. The Review, commissioned by...
From issue 260 News
A bid by secondary school teacher Elen Clampitt has won Bangor Youth Group the chance to host National Theatre Wales’ (NTW) first ever ‘SuperAssembly’ on 14–15 December. The...
From issue 260 News
An audio history of the organisation will be recorded and a new website will open up the theatre’s archives.
From issue 260 News
A new 24 bay coach park has been created on the edge of London’s Theatre district to provide access to the West End, as well as tackle congestion by coaches in residential areas. The park has...
From issue 260 News
The number of brass bands in Scotland has almost doubled over the past five years, following a Scottish Government investment through the Youth Music Initiative which has funded the Scottish Brass...
From issue 260 News
Watershed, the cultural cinema and digital creativity centre in Bristol, is to launch ‘Time Bank’, a day of surgery-style meetings followed by open discussions, to be held once every...
From issue 260 News
Camelot has announced record half-year returns to National Lottery Good Causes as the company reported its highest-ever interim sales figures. In the six months to the end of September, ticket sales...
From issue 260 News
The Government’s new Cultural Gifts scheme, launched this month, will enable individuals to donate works of art to the nation and, in the process, reduce their income tax or capital gains tax...
From issue 260
BRENDAN KEANEY has been appointed as Artistic Director and Chief Executive of DanceEast. He is currently Director of Greenwich Dance.
From issue 260
REBECCA STOREY is leaving her role as Senior Press and PR Officer at The Globe Theatre to join The Corner Shop PR as a Publicist.
From issue 260
Craftspace has appointed LOUISE EVANS as Operations and Development Manager. She has previously worked as Artistic Director at New Brewery Arts in Gloucestershire and takes over from LINDA STRAIN,...
From issue 260
Edinburgh International Festival has appointed ROY LUXFORD as its new Planning and Operations Director. He has previously worked as Executive Director for Cheek by Jowl and the Michael Clark Company
From issue 260
BETSY GREGORY will step down from her role as Artistic Director of Dance Umbrella in autumn 2013. She will have spent 16 years with the company, seven of them in her current role.
From issue 260
Chief Executive of the Royal Opera House TONY HALL will be the new Director General of the BBC. An ex-Head of BBC News, he is expected to take-up the position in March.
From issue 260
Buxton Festival has appointed RANDALL SHANNON as its Executive Director. He has previously worked as an Arts Manager and Consultant to a variety of arts organisations and film and television...
From issue 260
JO COWAN is leaving Quay Arts on the Isle of Wight, where she has been Director for the past two years and was Deputy Director before that.
From issue 260
Chief Executive of Hull Truck Theatre, ANDREW SMAJE is leaving the company to pursue new opportunities. He has been in the role since 2010.
From issue 260
KEREN NICOL is the new Senior Marketing & Press Officer at Citizen’s Theatre, Glasgow.
From issue 260
The new Vice President of LAMDA is DAVID SUCHET. The actor studied at the Academy in the 1960s.
From issue 260
DENA BAGI has been appointed as Programmes Manager responsible for education and learning projects at the British Ceramics Biennial.
From issue 260 Case study
Louise Amery describes how Aberystwyth Arts Centre has worked with Tincan to develop and build its new, rather hungry website.
From issue 260 Case study
Ed Green demanded a lot of functionality when he tendered for a new ticketing system and now reports that the Spektrix system has exceeded his expectations.
From issue 260 Case study
Dan Eastmond describes how the Monad ticketing system has resulted in a smoother service for customers and more marketing data for the staff.
From issue 260 Case study
A combination of technologies offers travellers the opportunity to book tickets for events at the same time as they book their travel arrangements. Bart van Schriek explains how.
From issue 260 Feature
At the end of a year in which Paul Hamlyn Foundation celebrates 25 years of grant-making, Robert Dufton discusses his organisation’s impact on the arts.

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