Voicebox: Kickstart your career

A career in the arts is challenging, hard work and really rewarding. Work placements and training opportunities are a great way to test out your desired career, meet people in the industry and develop your skills and experience.

University is great. Three years of all-nighters, existential crises, ever-looming deadlined, never-ending stress and excessive drinking. Survive that and you come out with a degree and thousands upon thousands of pounds of debt. Compelling, right?

Emrys answers a few questions about being self employed. There's advice about doing tax returns, getting work and what insurance types mean. And answers to several other questions. So if you're starting out in the big bad world of work or becoming a self employed individual for the first time - this article is to help you get going and through your first tax return.

Being repeatedly told what makes a good piece of writing by school and college has left my writing lifeless. How do i fix this?

Choosing between university and the world of work is hard, what are the pros and cons?

This month we have discussed the current state of creative education in the UK and it has proved itself to be rather lacking. From interviews with leading demonstrators to creative utopias, here is the best from September.

We've featured Agi on Voice before, she has completed all of her Arts Award levels (by the age of 11!) and is taught from home. Who better to call on, as we come to the close of creative education month.

Now that university fees and living costs have shot up, is higher education worth it?

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?