Proposals for a national subject network to champion the interests of those involved in teaching arts management and policy, will be put forward at a meeting hosted by Goldsmiths College and City University in conjunction with the London Centre for Arts and Cultural Enterprise. The organisers of the meeting, which will take place on 27 October in London, hope that a formal network will provide the focus for debate and agenda setting between Higher Education (HE) institutions in the UK, and represent the whole sector to the Higher Education Funding Council, the Department for Education and Skills, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
Although a few HE institutions in the UK belong to ENCACT, the European Network of Cultural Administration Training Centres, and AAAE, the Association of Arts Administration Educators in the USA, there is no equivalent subject-specific association in the UK for cultural policy, the creative industries or arts management. At least 19 UK institutions run programmes either wholly or partially concerned with this area, but despite an increasing acceptance of applied research in this field, the AHRC has no single panel to consider submissions for grant funding concerned with cultural policy and management. Participants can register online to attend.
Published: 09-10-2006