Voicebox: Kickstart your career
What's the best pathway into the arts and media - a creative apprenticeship or a university course? How do I build my experience and contacts, and survive as a young professional? This Voicebox offers ideas about developing your creative career, providing you with insights and opinions from both professionals and peers.
We also have a careers section dedicated to helping you find inspiration on taking that next step!
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24 September 2015
We need a curriculum that will engage the emotions as well as the intellect
The biggest issue in Education has got to be the large percentage of children still being failed by the system.
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24 September 2015
Is higher education worth the cost?
Now that university fees and living costs have shot up, is higher education worth it?
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21 September 2015
How to...make the most of your academic creativity
This month we have rather naughtily put creativity and education up against one another - but obviously in a dream world they would be best pals. So, how do you really make the most of both?
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18 September 2015
How to...Educate Yourself Creatively Outside School and University
Not getting enough creativity from your school or university? Worry not, there are many different options that can help you unleash your creative potential.
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16 September 2015
Technical Creativity: Using Practical Skills in the Arts
Can technical skill and creative freedom really both be found in the same place?
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14 September 2015
Can young people fully understand the importance of arts in our current system?
Arts education is not effective in demonstrating the value of the arts to young people.
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14 September 2015
Joe Craig on creativity
Musician, screenwriter and author of the Jimmy Coates series talks about creative processes
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11 September 2015
Have art colleges lost their creativity?
With regimented marking criteria and a certain element of 'box ticking', do art colleges still offer creative freedom?
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10 September 2015
What goes on at... Creativity, Culture and Education
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...
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9 September 2015
Backstage with...Susan M Coles
Susan M Coles is a passionate advocate for art, craft and design education in the UK (and beyond).
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8 September 2015
Creativity for mind, body and soul
This month we're discussing the important role of creativity within education, and beyond. It's not just about getting a great career and scoring the top grades (although creativity can help with that too!) it's also about what it means to be human, and where 'home' is to you.
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7 September 2015
What is the English Baccalaureate, and why is it causing a stir?
If you have been to any debate on creative education in the last year, you will have heard one thing again and again. The new English Baccalaureate (EBacc) is coming, and it's a killer for the arts.
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4 September 2015
Is advanced education always the route to creative success?
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.
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3 September 2015
My issue with creative education
Issues with commitment and hard work may be more accurate...
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3 September 2015
School: a creative utopia
Imagine a world in which equality is universal. Not just between men and women, but between creatives and academics.
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2 September 2015
How to...teach yourself photography
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?
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1 September 2015
What’s the role of film education at a young age?
Media literacy gives us so much. It's unquantifiable how much I've learnt, not from school, but from watching film and television.
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1 September 2015
How Schools View Careers in the Arts
This is a topic that is very close to my heart and the opinions I have formed come mainly from my own experiences in attempting to gain acceptance and help from my school in regards to the career path I have chosen to follow.