English school exam results show shift away from creative subjects

A campaign to persuade the UK government to include art and other creative subjects in the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) has the unanimous backing of Royal Academicians, Christopher Le Brun, the president of the Royal Academy of Arts (RA) who is an artist, tells The Art Newspaper. Art, dance and music combine physical intelligence with analytical skills, Le Brun says, stressing the importance of the art room in schools, especially for non-academic teenagers.More than five million teenagers acro