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The UK’s new National Cyber Strategy is clear in its ambitions, but to fulfil them, we must double down on appropriate skills development, says ISACA director Mike Hughes.
Robert Lindsay (Matt Crossick/PA) Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Lack of support for the arts has led to low self-esteem in the industry, actor Robert Lindsay has said. The My Family star, 71, said the reopening of theatres does not mean times of hardship are over for self-employed and freelance workers and criticised an advert from last year that suggested a young ballet dancer could ‘reboot’ her career by movi...
The budget cuts follow a six-week consultation by Education Secretary Gavin Williamson and the Office for Students, the independent regulator for higher education in England, that found arts education subjects were not “strategic priorities”. The deadline for consultation on the budget cuts, which may come into effect during the 2021-22 academic year, is today. Other proposals include increased funding for courses “identified as supporting the NHS”, including science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects. The reduction in funding, which would affect performing and ...
The effects of the coronavirus pandemic have been far-reaching and among its collateral damage is the arts industry, which has been all but decimated and the creatives within it left out in the cold. The arts, we know, are propped up by the self-employed. New or emerging artists, marginalised creators and fresh art school graduates, many with no outside support. Scotland’s creative industries are made up of 15,000 businesses employing more than 90,000 people (pre-Covid, at least). That doesn’t account for freelancers. Since Covid-19 hit almost a year ago, it is the creatives who...
Charlotte Church says she is “disappointed” that the Government has not done more for the arts in the pandemic. The Government has launched a £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund to save cultural institutions on the brink of collapse. But Welsh singer Church, 34, said more help is needed. ‘Not only is it really important to our economy but it’s vastly important to our wellbeing and culture.’ @charlottechurch says the government’s ‘retrain scheme’ for creative artists was insulting. She’s disappointed at the support the govt has given the creative industries. pic.twitter.com/...