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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.

Musician, screenwriter and author of the Jimmy Coates series talks about creative processes

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...

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.

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.

Imagine a world in which equality is universal. Not just between men and women, but between creatives and academics.

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.

Who says it best? The most informative videos about the importance of creativity from school, to working life.

Sadly, it is the case that within the current educational climate, arts subjects are being put on the back seat within the school curriculum.