If you don’t have industry connections, trying to break into the sector can be overwhelming. So, courses that provide work experience are in high demand. Meet Karen Pimbley (course leader) and Annabel Atkins (student).
With all the ambiguity around ethnicity terminology, Kevin Osborne is gradually coming to the view that identifying people by their colour is the best way to drive race equity.
Last week’s reshuffle saw DCMS lose its digital remit to a new Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. Benjamin Kulka asks what this restructure means for the UK's creative sector.
The start of a new year is always a time of reflection and optimism. But this year Hilary Carty finds she’s rather hesitant and feeling somewhat more vulnerable than in previous times.
When asked if the performing arts should simply entertain or whether they have a higher social calling, Jonathan Vaughan is very clear. If the arts are to thrive and remain relevant, they have to do both.
Kevin Osborne calls on leaders of the major classical music organisations to join his campaign to close the racial equity gap as a means of preserving their own funding.
There has been considerable criticism of UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK - from the sector, in the press and in parliament. Here, its Programme Director Sam Hunt responds to the commentary.
A new EU report – Culture for Health – reviews cultural interventions in health and wellbeing and makes policy recommendations. But a group of academicsled by Stephen Clift has serious concerns about its credibility.
Artists, poets, designers and creative practitioners hold the key to solving some of the most challenging issues of our time. Caroline Norbury thinks we should make more of it.
As the dust settles on ACE's announcement of its new portfolio, Mark Pemberton unpacks the numbers to see what the outcome is for orchestras and opera companies.
A new report into equality, diversity and inclusion in music is published this week. Its authors Anna Bull, Diljeet Bhachu and Amy Blier-Carruthers argue to tackle the inequalities it reveals, EDI must be embedded into the discipline.
Music industry professionals are ready to support music education provision, writes Lissy Kelleher-Clarke, but the refreshed National Plan for Music Education falls short of suggesting new ideas.
A recent article* from academic and musician Thomas Wolf makes a strident argument that arts organisations employ too many administrators. Ash Mann disagrees.
The reallocation of such a significant slice of ACE funding away from the capital has caused shock. But it was always part of the Let's Create strategy.
The email Arts Council England sent on Tuesday (25 October) delaying the announcement of the new national portfolio is final proof the arm’s length principle is dead.
UNBOXED: Was it worth it?
Could the money put towards the £120m Unboxed festival have been better spent? asks News Editor Neil Puffett.