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!
Image: German Embassy London
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Blog
14 September 2015Can young people fully understand the importance of arts in our current system?
View BlogArts education is not effective in demonstrating the value of the arts to young people.
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Interview
14 September 2015Joe Craig on creativity
View InterviewMusician, screenwriter and author of the Jimmy Coates series talks about creative processes
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Blog
11 September 2015Have art colleges lost their creativity?
View BlogWith regimented marking criteria and a certain element of 'box ticking', do art colleges still offer creative freedom?
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Interview
10 September 2015What goes on at... Creativity, Culture and Education
View InterviewCreativity, 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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Interview
9 September 2015Backstage with...Susan M Coles
View InterviewSusan M Coles is a passionate advocate for art, craft and design education in the UK (and beyond).
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Blog
8 September 2015Creativity for mind, body and soul
View BlogThis 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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Feature
7 September 2015What is the English Baccalaureate, and why is it causing a stir?
View FeatureIf 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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Feature
4 September 2015Is advanced education always the route to creative success?
View FeatureShould 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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Blog
3 September 2015My issue with creative education
View BlogIssues with commitment and hard work may be more accurate...
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Blog
3 September 2015School: a creative utopia
View BlogImagine a world in which equality is universal. Not just between men and women, but between creatives and academics.
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How-to Guide
2 September 2015How to...teach yourself photography
View How-to GuideThis 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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Feature
1 September 2015What’s the role of film education at a young age?
View FeatureMedia 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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Blog
1 September 2015How Schools View Careers in the Arts
View BlogThis 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.
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Feature
1 September 2015The best TED picks: How can creativity help your career?
View FeatureWho says it best? The most informative videos about the importance of creativity from school, to working life.
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Feature
1 September 2015Education vs Creativity...the gloves are off!
View FeatureCan these two vital elements in any young person's development be brought back together?
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Feature
1 September 2015School: should it always be about academic achievement?
View FeatureSadly, it is the case that within the current educational climate, arts subjects are being put on the back seat within the school curriculum.
