{"id":29916,"date":"2019-01-14T22:02:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T22:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/?p=29916"},"modified":"2023-05-30T23:59:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T22:59:18","slug":"government-neglect-of-arts-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/2019\/01\/14\/government-neglect-of-arts-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Government neglect of arts education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The decline in primary school arts education is a ripple effect of Michael Gove\u2019s policies, writes <strong><span style=\"font-family: Thread-00001284-Id-00000048\">Christopher Gordon<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><!-- GUARDIAN WATERMARK --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2019\/jan\/14\/government-neglect-of-arts-education\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/image.guardian.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2010\/03\/01\/poweredbyguardian.png\" alt=\"Powered by Guardian.co.uk\" width=\"140\" height=\"45\" \/>This article titled &#8220;Government neglect of arts education&#8221; was written by Letters, for The Guardian on Monday 14th January 2019 17.47 UTC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The decline in primary school arts education is a ripple effect of Michael Gove\u2019s policies (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/yougov-polling-blog\/2019\/jan\/11\/we-fight-for-every-penny-teachers-say-not-enough-resources-for-arts-education\" title=\"\">\u2018Shocking\u2019 decline in art education in primary schools, survey shows<\/a>, 11 January). It is ironic, of course, that the means of learning at that age are primarily \u201cartistic\u201d. Ed Vaizey, David Cameron\u2019s minister of state for culture, in his vacuous 2016 culture white paper, stated that new, gold-standard GCSEs and A-levels had been introduced in art and design, music, drama, dance and design and technology, and affirmed his full confidence in the policies of the Department for Education.<\/p>\n<p>The then secretary of state was Nicky Morgan, who had warned young people that choosing to study arts subjects at school could limit career choices and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2017\/jun\/05\/post-brexit-britain-need-theatre-public-investment-creative-economy\" title=\"\">hold them back for the rest of their lives<\/a>\u201d.<br \/><strong>Christopher Gordon<\/strong><br \/><em>Former<\/em><em> chief executive, English Regional Arts Boards <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2022 Join the debate \u2013 email <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"mailto:guardian.letters@theguardian.com\" title=\"\"><strong><em>guardian.letters@theguardian.com<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2022 Read more Guardian letters \u2013 click here to visit <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tone\/letters\" title=\"\"><strong><em>gu.com\/letters<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2022 Do you have a photo you\u2019d like to share with Guardian readers? <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2018\/jan\/15\/share-your-best-photographs-of-the-week-with-us\" title=\"\"><strong><em>Click here to upload it<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em> and we\u2019ll publish the best submissions in the letters spread of our print edition<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>guardian.co.uk &#169; Guardian News &amp; Media Limited 2010<\/p>\n<p>Published via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/open-platform\/news-feed-wordpress-plugin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Guardian plugin page\" rel=\"noopener\">Guardian News Feed<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/the-guardian-news-feed\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Wordress plugin page\" rel=\"noopener\">plugin<\/a> for WordPress.<\/p>\n<p><!-- END GUARDIAN WATERMARK --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decline in primary school arts education is a ripple effect of Michael Gove\u2019s policies, writes <strong>Christopher Gordon<\/strong>, former chief executive of English Regional Arts Boards<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10220698900476085_349663338397715":"","twitter_1370559253_1370559253":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[56,61,108,452,29,554,141,573,574,75,515,145,63,142],"class_list":["post-29916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-art","tag-article","tag-conservatives","tag-david-cameron","tag-education","tag-journal","tag-letters","tag-michael-gove","tag-nicky-morgan","tag-politics","tag-primary-schools","tag-schools","tag-the-guardian","tag-uk-letters-and-leader-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcpdt.org.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}