The arts give young people a place for self-expression, to explore ideas and society. Without the creative arts, the country will be much poorer and young people will be poorer in life skills too. Stuart Worden, Principal of the BRIT School said: ‘The BRIT School champion a creative arts education and we are living proof that young people can get jobs in the creative industries and make a huge contribution to the UK economy. Why is this government deciding this for youngsters they don’t know and haven’t asked?’ Sir Mark Featherstone-Witty OBE, Founding Principal/CEO of the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) said: ‘The purpose of learning is to find out what you are good at and love doing. They have cross-curricular benefits and help develop innovative thinkers who contribute both economically and socially in all sectors, be it engineering or medicine, as well as the creative industries.’ Neil Constable, Chief Executive, of the Shakespeare's Globe said: ‘The EBacc leaves little room for students to study creative subjects - a cause for much concern. The Bacc for the Future campaign (comprising 200+ organisations and more than 100,000 individuals) is calling on the Government to drop their plans for the EBacc and instead continue with implementing the original proposals for Progress 8 and Attainment 8for all secondary schools. The immediate impact of the EBacc has been an 8% decline in the uptake of creative artistic and technical subjects at GCSE level and a 1.7% decline in the number of students taking at least one arts-based GCSE, seen in figures released by the Department of Education after this year’s GCSE results. Thursday 3 November marks one year since the Department for Education launched a consultation on their plans to make the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) all-but compulsory in secondary schools, a decision made under former Education Secretary Nicky Morgan and first proposed under Michael Gove.
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