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‘Urgent action’ needed to improve secondary arts provision, states report

Requires Improvement: Urgent Change for 11–16 Education claims that the education system ‘moving in the wrong direction’.
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A new report from a cross-party group of Lords has called for a secondary curriculum that has a ‘greater emphasis’ on creative subjects. 

The Requires Improvement: Urgent Change for 11-16 Education report, published by the House of Lords, claims that schools are ill-equipped to provide future generations with creative, technical and design-led subjects. 

A member of the committee that prepared the reports, former Conservative education minister Kenneth Baker, warns that the current system has not substantially changed since 1904, and said: ‘it is a disaster, in my view.’

The report questioned whether the current education system effectively equips young people with the knowledge, skills and behaviours they need to progress to the next phase of their education, and to flourish in the future. 

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