Writing in the Daily Telegraph in May 2016, Bernice McCabe, head of North London Collegiate School, draws attention, as have so many, to the gradual erosion of arts education in schools, seen in year-on-year falls in GCSE entries for drama, music, design and technology and the expressive and performing arts.
She also points out the contradiction between the government’s Culture White Paper, which insists that the arts should be an essential part of every child’s education, and the reality of a narrowly focused English Baccalaureate (EBacc).
“…with many schools focusing their curricula around the EBacc, which does not include arts subjects, more needs to be done to protect the place of creativity in the timetable,” she writes.
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