Spend now, tax later

Mar 4, 2021 | Policy

CHEAD responds to the Chancellor’s March 2021 Budget. Blog piece provided by Sandra Booth, CHEAD Director of Policy. The budget provided a welcome confirmation of the Government’s commitment to the UK’s ambitions for an innovation led recovery which will...

Letter calling for Minister to protect Creative Education in H.E.

Feb 16, 2021 | Policy

In late January 2021 the Department for Education published four papers affecting further and higher education, including the regulator, the Office for Students (OfS), making a change in the top-up funding for high cost subject areas meaning Art and Design courses...

New economic indicators for Creative Industries

Feb 15, 2021 | Policy

Newly released infographics demonstrate the economic impact of the creative industries sector. The Gross Value Added (GVA) of the UK creative industries was provisionally estimated at £115.9bn in 2019 current prices, before the disruption caused by the COVID-19 global...

#ArtIsEssential Campaign

Feb 12, 2021 | Advocacy, Art education

In late November 2020, CHEAD and CVAN* met with key art sector organisations with regional and national influence in visual arts with a view to form an advocacy group. This meeting demonstrated a sense of urgency to change the perception that our sector is in a stable...

TEF Review, funding, and challenge: Design and Creative Arts Disciplines (in English HE)

Jan 25, 2021 | Policy

Provided by Vicky Gunn, Glasgow School of Art. Last week witnessed one of those (now less ‘unprecedented’) COVID19 2020-21 moments. On the one hand, the Westminster government gave us a gift: following the independent review of the TEF and the release of the subject...