These days, ‘creative subjects’ are pushed aside as ‘less important’ subjects, including music. This sets the idea from a young age that music is not useful or essential, promoting an unhealthy mindset towards the creative arts.

By their very nature, schools adopt teaching techniques that cater for the masses, but this means that plenty of young people are still falling through the cracks of the system. Could new ways of learning prevent these gaps?

A guide to help demystify home-education during your time at home

Funding awarded to Manchester International Festival by Jerwood Arts will provide mentoring fellowships for six Manchester-based creatives.

The 2016 engage International Conference

Liverpool Hope University & venues across Liverpool

13 & 14 October; Fringe 12, 13 & 15 October #engageinLiverpool

The engage International Conference 2016 will explore how issues of access and activism impact on gallery and visual arts approaches to education and outreach.

Taking place in Liverpool, a city renowned for its radicalism and creativity, at the time of the Liverpool Biennial, this year's Conference programme will have a strong focus on arts activism – how it has changed not only society's response to art, but also how it has irrevocably altered the way in which the arts world now engages with society at large.

Conference will consider the exciting methods of engagement which have developed from the early days of activism, examples of how intervention achieves its aims and the ways in which the arts can create value in contemporary society. It will examine how the arts can effectively engage with schools and ask if the curricula, or styles of interaction need to change. A discussion about how best to provide sustainable careers for artists will bring the two days of interaction and conversation to a close.

Creativity, Culture and Education are an organisation who help children to develop their creativity, growing on their current education. We chatted to Chief Executive, Paul Collard to find out more...

Should we always look to success at school and uni to predict future success? Loads of famous artists, musicians and actors made it...without excelling at school.

This month we're looking at creative education...but does this always have to come from the classroom? Why not teach yourself a key arts skill?