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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 lecturer at the Ulster Polytechnic in 1973. She remained in Northern...
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 will arise at the end of the 2018/19 year. Please see below links to...
What do creative arts graduates do? The destinations of graduates from creative subjects compares well with graduates across the whole of the higher education sector. Creative arts graduates employment is often related to their degree, with two-fifths entering arts,...
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 ‘creative industries’ box as diverse sets of skills underpinning...
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 a prominent technology lawyer, Chair of the Equality and Human...
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 GSA colleagues, students, and all of those affected, strength and...
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 an announcement by the Higher Education Funding Council for England...
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 already on the ground. BEIS is currently analysing responses to its...
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 this year's Summit theme is The New Narrative. India has changed...