Voicebox: Kickstart your career

Not getting enough creativity from your school or university? Worry not, there are many different options that can help you unleash your creative potential.

Can technical skill and creative freedom really both be found in the same place?

Arts education is not effective in demonstrating the value of the arts to young people.

With regimented marking criteria and a certain element of 'box ticking', do art colleges still offer creative freedom?

Susan M Coles is a passionate advocate for art, craft and design education in the UK (and beyond).

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.

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.

Issues with commitment and hard work may be more accurate...

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?

Media literacy gives us so much. It's unquantifiable how much I've learnt, not from school, but from watching film and television.

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.

Can these two vital elements in any young person's development be brought back together?