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What this chart doesn't show you is that although 'private returns' in the arts might be low for the individual (which they shouldn't be, by the way)... the 'creative industries generated £126bn in gross value added to the economy and employed 2.4 million people in 2022.

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'Arts education is essential – yet on both sides of the Atlantic, the humanities and critical thinking are under attack.'

Devolution funding & £450m private investment will finance Sunderland's landmark new film studio.

But the city's unique cultural legacy is at risk. NationalGlassCentre's future is uncertain, and University of Sunderland glass & ceramics dept faces imminent closure.

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🚨 We've written to Education Secretary Gillian Keegan raising serious concerns about the squeeze on grant funding for arts courses in Higher Education. The decision undermines Treasury ambitions for the creative industries and leaves our talent pipeline in jeopardy.

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'We see the art you manage to produce with not only the pressures that your white colleagues face but with the added traumatic hurdle of misogynoir.'

Campaign for the Arts strongly condemns the racial abuse faced by Francesca Amewudah-Rivers this week.

Arts Higher Education is not a strategic priority for the Government.

Deep cuts to HE ArtsEd budgets since 2021, and most recently last week, demonstrate this.

So how does this square with the 'ambitious plans for growing the creative industries'? 🤔
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We are appalled that the Government is once again singling out arts & creative subjects for funding cuts in Higher Education.

Many courses have already closed and a growing number are at risk.

This attack on the arts must stop now.

#ArtsEducationMatters
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In 2021, the government cut funding by 50% to subjects identified as non-priority / high-cost:

- Performing Arts
- Creative Arts
- Media Studies.

Three years on, the impact of these cuts continues to bite, not least when it comes to course quality, range and availability.

“University bankruptcy is a realistic possibility.”

Stephen Armstrong argues that UK unis face challenge due to falling intl student numbers, govt policies, cuts, & soaring debt.

Arts courses are already in the firing line, and increasingly at risk.

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