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One Dance UK joins arts leaders in signing an open letter on the EBACC
One Dance UK's Chief Executive Officer, Andrew Hurst, is among leading arts figures to have signed their name on the open letter.
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Young creatives, Dancer Choolwe M, Alice, Esther, Lara, Martha, Sunny, One Dance UK, Dani Bower Photography
After years of the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) taking centre stage in education, the lead organisations in the Save Our Subject campaign - One Dance UK, Independent Society of Musicians (ISM) and National Society for Education in Art and Design (NSEAD) - have organised an open letter which calls for reform. The aim is to enable the government to recognise the importance of arts subjects and bring them back to the forefront of the curriculum.
Leading figures including choreographer Sir Richard Alston, Shirley Ballas, Arlene Phillips, Bob and Roberta Smith and Julian Lloyd Webber, have joined over 700 people in signing the open letter and are waiting for action.
"Arts subjects, including art & design, dance, design & technology, drama and music, have been disappearing from English state secondary schools at an alarming rate, with a 42% drop in arts subjects overall at GCSE since 2010. The EBacc, introduced in 2010, contains no arts subjects, while Progress 8, introduced in 2016, adds further pressure on schools to prioritise EBacc subjects in the curriculum." (https://www.ism.org/news/times-open-letter-ebacc/)
One Dance UK's Chief Executive Officer, Andrew Hurst, is among leading arts figures to have signed their name on the open letter. Further to this, One Dance UK has been working hard with the National Education Union on their Arts and Minds campaign which also calls for arts subjects to be placed at the heart of education and see the EBacc removed.
Read our open letter in The Times:
