‘Horrible’ disparity emerging in cultural education in schools, says V&A head
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Speaking at launch of UK’s ‘first museum created with and for young people’, Tristram Hunt said it could help fill gapA “horrible disparity” is opening between state and private schools in the provision of creative education, the director of the V&A, one of the country’s leading museums, has said.Speaking at the launch of the Young V&A museum, aimed at children from birth to 14 years, Tristram Hunt said creative education was being downgraded or excluded in many state schools, leading to a 60% fall in the numbers of young people taking art and design subjects at GCSE. Continue reading...