CHEAD sign letter advocating the importance of creative subjects

Jan 4, 2022 | Membership, Policy

University Alliance and Creative UK publish letter about the importance of creative courses in HE | University Alliance (unialliance.ac.uk). Together with Creative UK, University Alliance published a letter in the Telegraph on 13/12/21, urging government to enact a...

Leading UK visual arts institutions & art schools unite against proposed government cuts to arts education

May 12, 2021 | Membership, Policy

The Council for Higher Education in Art and Design (CHEAD) is proud to be one of over 300 signatories to the open letter to Secretary of Education Gavin Williamson against the proposed cuts to arts education. Read the letter in full:...

CHEAD response to the consultation on recurrent fees for 2021-22

May 5, 2021 | Membership, Policy

The Office for Students are currently consulting on the approach to £1.3b recurrent funding for 2021-22 for high-cost subjects, premiums to support disadvantaged students and funding for specialist institutions. Due to the specialist and detailed nature of the...

Spend now, tax later

Mar 4, 2021 | Policy

CHEAD responds to the Chancellor’s March 2021 Budget. Blog piece provided by Sandra Booth, CHEAD Director of Policy. The budget provided a welcome confirmation of the Government’s commitment to the UK’s ambitions for an innovation led recovery which will...

Letter calling for Minister to protect Creative Education in H.E.

Feb 16, 2021 | Policy

In late January 2021 the Department for Education published four papers affecting further and higher education, including the regulator, the Office for Students (OfS), making a change in the top-up funding for high cost subject areas meaning Art and Design courses...

New economic indicators for Creative Industries

Feb 15, 2021 | Policy

Newly released infographics demonstrate the economic impact of the creative industries sector. The Gross Value Added (GVA) of the UK creative industries was provisionally estimated at £115.9bn in 2019 current prices, before the disruption caused by the COVID-19 global...