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Arts and Design Expertise and Evidence Base: how can we use it? CHEAD's policy roundtable series with the All Party Parliamentary Design and Innovation Group, Realising Art and Design Research in Policy Making Decisions, has published the first in a series of reports...
University Alliance and Creative UK publish letter about the importance of creative courses in HE | University Alliance (unialliance.ac.uk). Together with Creative UK, University Alliance published a letter in the Telegraph on 13/12/21, urging government to enact a...
The Council for Higher Education in Art and Design (CHEAD) is proud to be one of over 300 signatories to the open letter to Secretary of Education Gavin Williamson against the proposed cuts to arts education. Read the letter in full:...
The Office for Students are currently consulting on the approach to £1.3b recurrent funding for 2021-22 for high-cost subjects, premiums to support disadvantaged students and funding for specialist institutions. Due to the specialist and detailed nature of the...
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 be supported...
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...
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...
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...
The Contemporary Visual Arts Network CVAN plans to launch a new initiative by inviting sector representative organisations to come together and form an alliance for the visual arts. The new alliance is drafting a shared mission statement and agreeing objectives which...
In conversation with Greg Clark MP - Wednesday 28th October, 2020 – Write Up. As part of Policy Connect’s “In conversation with…” event series, CEO Jonathan Shaw spoke with Greg Clark MP to discuss his role as Chair of the Science and Technology Committee. The event...