Our response to the DfE’s Curriculum and Assessment Review is informed by our experience supporting art, craft, media and design in the creative sector and the wider creative economy, and our track record of working with creative educators, practitioners, researchers, policy makers and students to deliver creativity in the curriculum.

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 summarising how we can use the art and design evidence base in policy making.

In May we issued the CHEAD & Crafts Council Members Covid-19 Survey, designed to understand how higher education is adapting and sustaining provision to support students and graduates at this time.

At a packed event in the Houses of Parliament on 25th February 2020 CHEAD and APDIG hosted parliamentarians, members, industry representatives and guests in the Jubilee Room.

While the UK has for many decades ranked in clear second place next to the USA for the popularity of international HE provision, other countries are putting policies into practice that are attracting a much larger share of mobile students. This inquiry seeks to support the Government’s ambition by identifying how HE could be grown to deliver the 2020 target.

A Plan for Economic Growth report launches in Parliament. Policy Connect, the All-Party Parliamentary Design & Innovation Group, Council for Higher Education in Arts & Design (CHEAD), and Culture Capital Exchange have collaborated to present an economic plan to ensure that one of the UK’s biggest exports and growing markets isn’t left out of the Brexit talks.

Occasional Briefing Paper by Sandra Booth Director of Policy and External Relations

Britain’s creative industries are worth £92 billion, employ 2 million people and are growing twice as fast as the rest of the economy. Strong leadership, collaborative action and recognition of recommendations in the Bazalgette Review for creative industries to underpin future prosperity has resulted in the sector being recognised for a sector deal.

This analysis has been prepared for CHEAD members by Professor Vicky Gunn of Glasgow School of Art.