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Arts Education

IN PERSPECTIVE 5 - From order and power to student and power - On mergers and discomfort in arts education

by Erik Akkermans
29 June 202229 June 2022
8 min read
ACTUAL, VISUAL, Featured, In Perspective

"Miss, please give me the minister!". Henk Vonhoff's voice sounded as commanding as it was eloquent as he addressed his secretary over the intercom. Vonhoff was commissioner of the Queen in Groningen, but also chairman of the supervisory committee of the Groningen State University of Applied Sciences, the only college still directly under the minister. We, faculty directors, were at... for the umpteenth time.

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Opinion deputies Culture: 'For Culture, set the navigation a bit more often on Eastern Netherlands!'

by one of our members
28 January 202030 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, PERSONAL, BECOME A MEMBER

The new year often starts with new insights and resolutions. A critical reflection can then help. We were therefore delighted to read the Volkskrant of 2 January, in which columnist and theatre critic Merlijn Kerkhof concludes that in 2020, he wants to enjoy all that the Netherlands has to offer in terms of culture a bit more often outside 020. And that is only right,...

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Fewer unemployed artists. 3 reasons why that's not good news.

by Wijbrand Schaap
5 September 201729 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Interesting news (from August) from the HBO Monitor was released into the world today by lobbying club Arts 92. Never before has unemployment among newly graduated artists been as low as in 2016. At just 3.1 per cent, it is even below the average for all HBO students. The average hourly wage of fresh artists, however, is more than 30 per cent below that of their colleagues

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How do you remove the negative sound around 'amateur art'?

by Henri Drost
28 May 201530 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, THEATER

A tricky question, but Festival Havenwerk director Erik-Jan Post has an idea and likes to bad some sacred cows. About arts education. About the concept of 'amateur'. About how big you should want to be as a festival. 'We are much less a festival in the classic sense. Havenwerk is more of a meeting place, with the participants at the centre. This year, therefore, the entrance fees are...

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3 wonders in Bussemaker's letter: Culture sector is wiser than ministry

by Wijbrand Schaap
24 October 201411 July 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL

A small miracle did happen, in recent months. The result of that miracle can now be found in letter Jet Bussemaker, minister of OCW, sent to the chamber yesterday. And actually, it is not one miracle, but three. We list them for you. 1: The art world pulls together. Artists often find actors...

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Art training no return? It's just what your goal is.

by Wijbrand Schaap
10 June 201430 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

In school, we used to have a very good way to check the quality of wine: the yield. Wine with 14% alcohol was better than wine with 12% alcohol. After all, the goal was clear: to get drunk. Wine of 14% was more effective at that. So we preferred to drink wine with a yield of at least 14%.

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'Arts education virtually eliminated'

by one of our members
10 September 20128 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL

Update 11 September 2012: Labour Party corrects election manifesto in response to reporting below:

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Zijlstra investigates 'taking root' foreign art students

by Wijbrand Schaap
1 March 20128 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL

Many students studying at Dutch art schools are not from the Netherlands. At the request of PVV, supported by the government parties VVD and CDA, State Secretary for Culture Zijlstra is now investigating whether enough of these students also go to work in the Netherlands after their studies. Halbe Zijlstra made this commitment during a general consultation on the sector plan for professional arts education,...

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"GaBritish government report breaks ground for arts education

by one of our members
29 February 20128 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL

A national arts education plan, guaranteed permanent extra money for arts education and a cultural passport for all children, which also records their cultural experience: a few recommendations from the Henley study, commissioned by the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport. While Dutch MPs are still struggling with the reorganisation of arts education, Britain is giving...

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Arts colleges to cooperate more and get "partly or wholly" the same budget

by one of our members
26 October 20118 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL

On 5 July, the HBO Council came out with a sector plan for art education. Following the report of the Dijkgraaf committee and the Brinkman committee, it was concluded that the autonomous fine arts courses will reduce the intake of first-year students by 25%, the conservatoires with direction of classical and jazz by 10%, and the rest by 20%. This is to be achieved in a period...

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Over three million for The best of both worlds

by one of our members
14 September 20108 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL

The Fund for Cultural Participation has awarded grants to eight multi-year projects by professional arts organisations as part of the Best of Both Worlds programme. The total amount involved is €3,397,333. With the programme The best of two worlds, the Fund for Cultural Participation wants to give an impulse to the cooperation between professionals and amateurs in the field of culture. There are three...

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