CHEAD Trustees are shocked and saddened to learn of the recent death of Professor Elaine Thomas CBE. Elaine Thomas studied painting at Manchester Polytechnic before taking up a post as Fine Art lectur …

Elections for CHEAD Trustees will be held at the forthcoming Annual General Meeting, held during the Annual CHEAD Conference in Sheffield on Thursday 28th March 2019, at 9.00am. Two Trustee vacancies …

Policy Update now available #CHEADPOL with links to podcast on Creativity and profile of ACE CEO Darren Henley including what’s in store for Arts Council England Strategy for next Ten Years.

CHEAD has made a submission to the House of Commons Education Committee’s inquiry into the Fourth Industrial Revolution stressing the importance of understanding creative arts and design outside the ‘ …

UAL has appointed David Isaac CBE as the new Chair of its Court of Governors. He will take up the role on 1 August 2018 following the end of Sir John Sorrell’s five-year term of office. David Isaac is …

We are deeply saddened to hear about the fire that has devastated the Mackintosh building at Glasgow School of Art and the impact that this will have on the GSA community, and more widely. We wish our …

University of the Arts London (UAL) professor Susan Orr has been appointed Chair for a new pilot Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) subject-level panel for the arts. The appointment comes following a …

Now we’re settling into the new academic year, implementation follows last years’ frenetic policy pace. REF 2021, Graduate Outcomes survey, LEO, and and OfS and UKRI are taking shape whilst TEF is alr …

CHEAD is organising a Pavilion at this year’s CII Design Summit in Hyderabad, India on 5-6 December 2017. The summit is a platform to create an enduring partnership between design organizations and th …

As our members will be aware, CHEAD has been invited to nominate appointments to REF 2021. If your institution is a CHEAD member and you would like to be considered for nomination by CHEAD, please res …