UK needs to" get creative"...

The government’s Creative Industries Advisory Group has expressed concern about a skills shortage in the creative sector after 2020 because fewer British students are graduating from art schools and music colleges. They say by contrast, Chinese students are coming in record numbers to study design, music, fashion and film, with the number enrolling in creative programmes tripling over the past five years. There are also 7,000 undergraduates enrolled in the China Academy of Art as Beijing pursues a strategy of turning “Made in China” into “Created in China”. Sir Anthony Seldon, the master of Wellington College, said, “We went too far in the 70s and 80s in being child-centred but now it is all swinging too far back the other way towards regurgitation of mechanistic imposition. It’s no good getting Grade-8 piano if you can’t feel the music. Education shouldn’t just be about exam success but also creating good citizens. If there is not also a cultural, creative, moral, spiritual and personal dimension you are going to be drab.”