Thread by @rometostandrews

Some thoughts on how to make a better case for what #CreativeIndustries can offer....
@CreativeIndsUK @Creative_Fed

Ministers could limit student numbers on lower-earning arts degrees in England theguardian.com/education/2021…

Debate is informed by Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) data. But a) this is in flux
hesa.ac.uk/support/tools-…

and b) it excludes self-employed graduates
officeforstudents.org.uk/data-and-analy…
:who is not included in LEO data?

@ahrcpress @CreativePEC have produced several reports on this and it's now picked up in David Willetts' @HEPI_news report @resfoundation

hepi.ac.uk/2021/09/30/how…

The issues are that
a) self-employment may be higher in first destinations for creative industries
b) the gap isn't actually that big - between creative industries and law, there's no gap at 6 months and only £5k at 3.5 years.

Moreover, by definition, this data lags real time. So decisions made now are based on what happened to earnings for students who graduated c6 years ago. Yet between 2011 and 2018, employment in creative industries rose by 3 times the national average
thecreativeindustries.co.uk/facts-figures/…

So the data is old, doesn't reflect true earnings and lags the growth of the sector. Simultaneously, we are seeing huge skills shortages growing post-Covid - there's real scarring to the jobs market
pec.ac.uk/blog/how-covid…

We also know the sector isn't helping itself; poor pay and poor social mobility lie to some extent with the industry itself, as @heathercarey @Oliviagable @DrDaveOBrien have argued
pec.ac.uk/research-repor…

And the article rapidly makes this just an HE issue; we need to be talking more and more intelligently about further education, as @ElizaEaston pointed out in a report which is still highly pertinent
pec.ac.uk/assets/publica…
and as highlighted by @FENews
fenews.co.uk/fevoices/77343…

And we still fail to recognise the breadth and depth of the creative industries - bigger than Life Sciences, Automotive, Aerospace, Oil & Gas put together. These are the jobs which will both survive and make sense of the #AI revolution @TheEconomist
economist.com/films/2021/04/…

As @PeterBazalgette said @BeyondCnf 'as a nation we over-inform ourselves about declining industrial sectors and we under-inform ourselves about a high growth one, such as the Creative Industries.'

https://twitter.com/ElizaEaston/status/1450751128870719488?s=20

We need to make decisions based on good evidence; we need to join up thinking about investment in a growing industry, tackling skills shortages and exclusions, and getting the education pipeline right. @beisgovuk @DCMS @educationgovuk @hmtreasury need to talk...

If we get this right, as @CarolineNorbury @Creative_Fed have argued, we could build the sector in the same way as we have built life sciences and other sectors, just what @GeorgeFreemanMP has urged us to do.

https://twitter.com/GeorgeFreemanMP/status/1450389702629117954?s=20

That's why the fundamental research of @CreativePEC, the advocacy of @CreativeIndsUK @Creative_Fed and sector providers such as @GuildHEresearch @million_plus @unialliance and FE leaders need to come together more effectively.
pec.ac.uk

We owe it to our young people, our economy, those who have built our world leading creative industries sector, and to the better society creative industries can help create, to build another Creative Industries sector vision, and quickly.
@CreativeIndsUK @Creative_Fed