The Government’s commitment to creativity and creative business is increasingly impressive – Creative Partnerships has now been followed up with creative apprenticeships and a slew of ideas about how to boost creative industries. A lot of us must be thinking ‘great – they’ve finally noticed how important arts, culture and other creative businesses are to the UK economy’ while muttering ‘so what took you so long?’ Looking at ‘Creative Britain: New Talents for the New Economy’, with its... more
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Issue 165: Music in Schools , Issue 165: Lessons from America , Issue 165: Response to McMaster
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Music in Schools, Lessons from America, Response to McMaster
10 Mar 2008
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One of society?s less visible but looming issues is that of older men?s health. Ginny Brink suggests that a uniquely Australian concept might offer us a solution.
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10 Mar 2008
Self-directed, informal learning in Hertfordshire schools has improved motivation as well as musical skills, writes Abigail D?Amore.
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10 Mar 2008
New ideas on the role and make-up of arts boards could lead to problems, writes Jodi Myers in the latest in our special series of responses to the McMaster Report.
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10 Mar 2008
Creating a relationship between schools in the UK and the US needs a high-quality product, good networking and an understanding of the different school systems, reports Sydney Thornbury.
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10 Mar 2008
Dylan Adams entered the museum world on a long-stay placement to work on schools projects, and found that music provided a way into understanding the past.
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10 Mar 2008
Orchestral education departments, the Music Manifesto and the national subject organisation for music education are all working towards improving schools? music, writes Keith Stubbs.
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10 Mar 2008
There are some surprising differences in how galleries and museums on either side of the pond generate income, as Kate Carreno discovered on a fact-finding mission to New York and New England.
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As baby boomers begin to reach retirement age, Amy Kweskin Duncan explores what the USA is doing to ensure arts leadership in the future, and the parallels with developments in the UK.