There was space and money for him to explore and try things out, luxuries that today’s students don’t have.
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Without connections, it’s difficult to gain the ‘set-ready’ soft skills needed in the industry.
Canada needs the arts, with its insights into human behaviour and thinking, more than ever. But governments and funding agencies should shift funding models for arts graduate education.
In the latest higher education funding freeze: sacrificing the arts for STEM subjects makes no sense.
When people hear the term ‘liberal arts,’ it may sound like a phrase with political overtones. A scholar of literature explains why that’s wrong and takes a closer look at its origin and meaning.
Provisions like an extensive buggy park and friendly staff ensure that visitors with young children are welcomed and cared for.
The relationship between universities and performing arts training in Australia has often been uneasy or contentious.
For young people seeking to engage with the world’s most critical challenges, the UN Sustainable Development Goals can serve as an entry point. The arts open up possibilities to take action.
School choice already abounds in Ontario. Adding charter schooling in the name of ‘choice’ won’t help student achievement.
Government plans to defund arts higher education are detrimental to both the UK’s economy and its future.
Taking part in creative activities with little ones can help bolster their communication, build their sense of self and even improve their health and wellbeing.
Works by eight artists in the Dobell Drawing Biennial draw on dreams, history and reality. But drawing has escaped the gallery and will scribe on despite less government support for the arts.
Forty years since Fame showed the vulnerability of performing arts students, we can still do more to protect them. As we resume physical contact, we can use performance to renegotiate safe intimacy.
As comparisons are made between the finances of private and public schools, investment in a creative education for all should be prioritised.
Degrees with a strong visual arts foundation will ensure individuals will flourish, not flounder, when faced with disruptive technologies.
Art schools are emerging globally as very powerful instruments of urban renewal. In a time of transformation, Sydney must learn to tap into the value of having multiple art colleges.
A focus on core subjects for 16-year-olds should not exclude arts, music or drama.
Even poor, badly resourced schools can perform well when teachers, the education department, parents and a school’s broader community work together.
A systematic review of 199 international studies suggests that arts education remains a moot point.
The news that Louise Wilson has died held particular force for me, as someone who worked with her for ten years. She was the head of MA fashion at Central Saint Martins School of Art (CSM), and someone…
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