For young people seeking to engage with the world’s most critical challenges, the UN Sustainable Development Goals can serve as an entry point. The arts open up possibilities to take action.
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School choice already abounds in Ontario. Adding charter schooling in the name of ‘choice’ won’t help student achievement.
Government plans to defund arts higher education are detrimental to both the UK’s economy and its future.
Taking part in creative activities with little ones can help bolster their communication, build their sense of self and even improve their health and wellbeing.
Works by eight artists in the Dobell Drawing Biennial draw on dreams, history and reality. But drawing has escaped the gallery and will scribe on despite less government support for the arts.
Forty years since Fame showed the vulnerability of performing arts students, we can still do more to protect them. As we resume physical contact, we can use performance to renegotiate safe intimacy.
As comparisons are made between the finances of private and public schools, investment in a creative education for all should be prioritised.
Degrees with a strong visual arts foundation will ensure individuals will flourish, not flounder, when faced with disruptive technologies.
Art schools are emerging globally as very powerful instruments of urban renewal. In a time of transformation, Sydney must learn to tap into the value of having multiple art colleges.
A focus on core subjects for 16-year-olds should not exclude arts, music or drama.
Even poor, badly resourced schools can perform well when teachers, the education department, parents and a school’s broader community work together.
A systematic review of 199 international studies suggests that arts education remains a moot point.
The news that Louise Wilson has died held particular force for me, as someone who worked with her for ten years. She was the head of MA fashion at Central Saint Martins School of Art (CSM), and someone…
As part of the recent announcement that A Levels and GCSEs in arts subjects in England are to be made more “rigorous and demanding”, the secretary of state for education, Michael Gove, said he was “passionate…
If we want our children to do better academically and socially studying the arts could be the key to success. By ignoring arts education we could be jeopardising our kids’ opportunities to achieve and…
The release last month of a Melbourne Arts Precinct Blueprint by Arts Victoria, that promises further development of the cultural precinct in the city’s Southbank, hasn’t come without its fair share of…
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Head of School, School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds
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Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture, University of Technology Sydney
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Director, Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Education Research, School of Education, Durham University
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Oak Foundation Lecturer in History of Dress and Textiles, Courtauld Institute of Art
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Professor, University of Sydney
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Honorary Professor, Edith Cowan University
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Lecturer in Illustration/Animation, University of South Australia
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NRF Accredited & Senior Researcher; Lead Coordinator of the South-South Educational Collaboration & Knowlede Interchange Initiative, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Popular and Contemporary Music, Newcastle University
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Ontario Research Chair in Academic Achievement and At-Risk Youth, McMaster University
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Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Dean, Edith Cowan University
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Postgraduate Researcher in Psychology and Art Therapist, University of Dundee
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Associate Professor; UNESCO Chair in Arts and Learning, Queen's University, Ontario
