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The Cultural Learning Alliance (CLA) champions a right to arts and culture for every child. Join over 6,500 people and over 3,000 organisations today.
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Today we publish our #ReportCard2025, providing an overview of the current state of Arts education in England. Read now:
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This is the final part of Professor Pat Thomson's three-part response to the Curriculum and Assessment Review.
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What does Schwab’s thinking add to the idea of a knowledge-rich curriculum?. How might this shape how we understand the arts as knowledge-rich?. Read more:
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The third instalment in a three-part series from Professor Pat Thomson, responding to the Curriculum Review.
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CLA Latest Thinking: The conceptual basis of the Curriculum and Assessment Review. Professor Pat Thomson explores the philosophical underpinnings of the panel’s approach - specifically, the influence of Joseph Schwab’s concept of ‘the Practical’.
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CLA Research Spotlight: July 2025. Professor Pat Thomson, CLA Senior Evidence Associate, surveys the latest international research on arts and cultural learning. This month Thomson reviews research exploring the role of cultural participation in enhancing well-being.
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🔻 New DfE Academy Trust CEOs Group.🔻 Major changes to Teach First.🔻 £500m+ fund for youth services.🔻 Debate on music education.🔻 New research on music spaces. Read more:
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Just when we thought the amount of arts education news might be slowing down for the summer, here we are with another month of big announcements and new reports
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CLA Latest News: July 2025. Its been another big month for the arts education world. In our latest update:.🔻 Curriculum & Assessment Review Interim Report update.🔻 APPG report on ‘loss of love of learning’.🔻 21% rise in school suspensions.
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CLA Latest Thinking – The importance of dance education. Laura Nicholson of @onedanceuk reflects on the importance of Dance in the lives of CYP, considering factors that have been limiting access, and the opportunity now to recognise its value through changes to the curriculum.
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CLA Research Spotlight – June 2025. This month Professor Pat Thomson reviews research focused on whether regular participation in arts and cultural activities can prevent antisocial and criminal behaviours in young people. Read more:
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CLA has recently been focused on the benefits of arts subjects and activities in and of themselves (see our new Capabilities Framework ), but this month Profess
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Read more: . Image: Participants in Kettle’s Yard young people’s project supported by The Mildred Fund.
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The second instalment in a three-part series from Professor Pat Thomson, responding to the Curriculum Review.
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CLA Latest Thinking – What if we considered the arts as knowledge-rich? . In the second part of her series responding to the Curriculum Review, Professor Pat Thomson offers a thought experiment: how might we define and defend the arts through a knowledge-rich lens?.
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🔻 Evidence that there is no exodus from the independent school sector as a result of the VAT change to independent school status.🔻 Honours for colleagues in the Arts education sector.🔻 A taster of what we know about GCSE and A Level take-up in 2025 based on provisional data.
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🔻 A new fund from Arts Council England to address building repairs and upgrades to support improved access.🔻 A new report from Universities UK on how higher education organisations should work together to share services and assets.
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🔻 Funding situation for the National Centres for Advanced Training in Dance after a period of uncertainty.🔻 How Arts education is addressed in the Creative Industries Sector Plan within the government’s new Industrial Strategy.
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CLA Latest News - June 2025 .This month we bring you the latest insights for the world of cultural education, including:. 🔻 News of new funding for youth Arts programmes through the Dormant Assets strategy.🔻 Education and culture news from the government’s Spending Review.
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CLA champions a right to arts and culture for every child. It uses evidence to demonstrate the ways in which an arts-rich education provides skills for life and skills for work, enabling all children to fulfil their potential. Read more:.
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CLA champions a right to arts and culture for every child. It uses evidence to demonstrate the ways in which an arts-rich education provides skills for life and
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🔺Deadline extended to 30 June🔺 . We are seeking Trustees from the education sector to help ensure that all children and young people have access to rich and meaningful arts and cultural learning. Could this be you?.
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If you are passionate about the value of arts education and think that you have the skills, qualities or experience to help us deliver our mission on behalf of all children and young people, then we’d love to hear from you.
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