Access and Widening Participation in Arts Higher Education

Abstract

It is hard. It is hard when you are utterly passionate about an area of edu- cation (practice-based art and design education) and it feels under attack from so many angles. Read this book to understand the many challenges facing arts higher education. These challenges cut across funding, pro- posed student number caps, policies that have reduced the numbers of young people doing practice-based art and design subjects at school and government measures that seek to measure ‘poor value’ degrees by mea- suring graduate earnings across different disciplines.