Arts subjects – in which there are no right answers – help students to deal with uncertainty. So we must protect arts education at all costs, writes headmaster Peter Green.
Despite the protestations of Nicky Morgan and Nick Gibb that the place of the arts in British education is safe (with well-researched lists of contemporary British cultural icons within their recent speeches to prove how on trend they both are), I am still mistrustful of their real commitment to culture.
Nicky Morgan, addressing the Creative Industries Federation in July, said: "I believe access to cultural education is a matter of social justice", while Nick Gibb, launching Arts Council England’s Cultural Education Challenge in October, proudly stated that "since 2010 the percentage of pupils entered for at least one arts GCSE has... Keep reading on The Telegraph
Despite the protestations of Nicky Morgan and Nick Gibb that the place of the arts in British education is safe (with well-researched lists of contemporary British cultural icons within their recent speeches to prove how on trend they both are), I am still mistrustful of their real commitment to culture.
Nicky Morgan, addressing the Creative Industries Federation in July, said: "I believe access to cultural education is a matter of social justice", while Nick Gibb, launching Arts Council England’s Cultural Education Challenge in October, proudly stated that "since 2010 the percentage of pupils entered for at least one arts GCSE has... Keep reading on The Telegraph