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Arts in schools

July 2024

  • Stevie Van Zandt sat at a table talking to a child

    Rock star Stevie Van Zandt in plea for more arts and music in English schools

    Exclusive: E Street Band and Sopranos star visits south London to see his TeachRock programme in action

June 2024

  • illustration composite with children looking at a teacher in front of a whiteboard and an apprentice

    Life under Labour
    Labour wants to create opportunities for all. Can its education pledges narrow the divide?

  • Nicholas Hytner, Nancy Medina, Theresa Heskins

    ‘Absolute outrage’: arts in state schools must be a priority for next government, say theatre leaders

March 2024

  • Charlotte Higgins

    I’ve never heard a Labour leader speak about the arts like Keir Starmer – now I hope words become action

    Charlotte Higgins
  • A man wearing a suit and glasses stands in a primary school classroom in front of a bright blue display of artwork

    Labour to promise ‘access to the arts’ to widen involvement in creative industries

February 2024

  • Pauline Tambling

    Other lives
    Pauline Tambling obituary

  • Artist Frank Bowling in his studio in South London

    Frank Bowling sells signed prints to buy art supplies for 100 schools

November 2023

  • A teddy bear sitting on stairs.

    Brief letters
    The lost teddy that found its way home

    Brief letters: Toy story | Fear of strangers | Arts in schools | Accurate apostrophes

July 2023

  • The Labour leader, Keir Starmer, speaks behind a lectern at a press conference, with several young people standing behind him

    Leading actors and artists back Labour’s push for more creativity in schools

    Exclusive: Grayson Perry and Olivia Colman lead group of creative figures supporting Keir Starmer’s plan to improve “human” skills

June 2023

  • Children playing in the new Young V&A museum.

    ‘Horrible’ disparity emerging in cultural education in schools, says V&A head

  • Students working in their school art classroom, England. Labour has criticised low morale among teachers and a drop in arts provision.

    Labour accuses UK government of ‘stifling children’s creativity’

  • Students raising instrument bows in music class

    All children should have access to the arts, not just the middle class

  • A teenage girl learning verbs writes her GCSE French homework

    Languages and creative arts losing favour with GCSE and A-level students

February 2023

  • An art lesson at a secondary comprehensive school.

    Invest in arts subjects to protect our children’s futures

  • Violin lessons for year 4 pupils at St Lawrence primary school in Ludlow Shropshire UK April 2004

    The Guardian view on arts education: a creativity crisis

October 2021

  • 04 Paper mache (papier-mâché) art in Kashmir, India

    ‘We want dignity’: the vanishing craft of Kashmir’s papier-mache artists

    Award-winning artist Maqbool Jan is one of a handful still practising the ancient artform, but without government help he fears it could be lost

August 2021

  • Constance Bailey and her mother Laura in front of a steam locomotive

    Readers chip in to pay dance school fees for ballerina with autism

  • Wes Streeting

    ‘The hypocrisy is nauseating’: Wes Streeting on state school arts cuts

July 2021

  • Adele

    ‘Creativity crisis’ in schools is a threat to everyone

  • Boy playing saxophone

    ‘Creativity crisis’ looms for English schools due to arts cuts, says Labour

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