CHEAD is the association of educational institutions with degree or postgraduate provision in art, design, creative media and related disciplines.
CHEAD 2026 Annual Conference
Navigating Change: A Creative Leader's Role
Teesside University
Creative Education Manifesto
The manifesto outlines eight key asks which, if actioned, the coalition argues will help protect the critical talent pipeline that feeds the UK’s successful creative economy.
Resources for Embedding Skills for Planet
A space for practical resources to help designers, design educators and organisations that employ designers to embed the green design skills listed within the Skills for Planet Blueprint
CHEAD and ANdEA Study Programme 2025
CHEAD were delighted to win mobility funding from the British Council GREAT! Campaign enabling us to take twelve CHEAD Members to France for four days to meet with French schools of art and cultural organisations.
Hear what delegates had to say about their experience, and their plans for future collaborations and joint projects.
Civic and Place: framing the role of cultural development in Art and Design Working Paper
We are please to launch a working paper arising from the event in April 2025.
After the Unpausing….
We kick started the year with a lively discussion at our online REF Forum. The focus of the session was on the updates that REF announced before Christmas following its unpausing.
CHEAD Innovations in Practice: Skills for Planet
Join us for a showcase of presentations on embedding the Skills for Planet Blueprint
CHEAD provides a voice for and on behalf of higher education art and design in the UK four nations advancing knowledge and understanding in the sector and promoting the sector’s interests to others.
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