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The Council for Higher Education in Art & Design

CHEAD is the association of educational institutions with degree or postgraduate provision in art, design, creative media and related disciplines.

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Creative Education Manifesto

The manifesto outlines eight key asks which, if actioned, the coalition argues will help protect the critical talent pipeline that feeds the UK’s successful creative economy.

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Resources for Embedding Skills for Planet

A space for practical resources to help designers, design educators and organisations that employ designers to embed the green design skills listed within the Skills for Planet Blueprint

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Working Paper Women In Leadership: Cracking the Code – Progression and Promotion

A working paper arising from CHEAD’s Women in Leadership event which sought to challenge prevailing promotion systems in HE as well as offering a space of creative leadership, solidarity and community-building.

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Recent activity
Civic and Place: framing the role of cultural development in Art and Design Working Paper
30.09.25

Civic and Place: framing the role of cultural development in Art and Design Working Paper

We are please to launch a working paper arising from the event in April 2025.

12.05.26

CHEAD at the UK Arts & Creative Industries Conference

CHEAD attended the UK Arts & Creative Industries Conference

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30.06.26

Freelance Education Framework Live Launch

Launch of the Freelance Education Framework

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About CHEAD

CHEAD provides a voice for and on behalf of higher education art and design in the UK four nations advancing knowledge and understanding in the sector and promoting the sector’s interests to others.

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Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design is the ‘Creative Hub’ at the centre of the University of Dundee. We are a community of practitioners aiming to make a difference in the world - to society, culture and the economy - through creative thinking and making. Our graduates are encouraged to be entrepreneurial and visionary thinkers inform...
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