Annual Conference for Teachers and Advisers 2022
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Bringing the Arts Home: The true value of arts and humanities graduates in a post Covid-19 world
Wednesday 9 February 2022
14:10 - 15:00
All Advisers
Summary
The Covid-19 lockdown brought the value of the creative arts home, as thousands of us stayed indoors and found ourselves watching free performances by the National Theatre at Home, discovering Twitch and TikTok as new platforms of entertainment for new music and video, and booked tickets to attend drive-in comedy festivals and cinema, helping us all to bring a sense of “normality” in a world that was anything but. However, the ongoing political rhetoric over the “value” of higher education, particularly surrounding those subjects that don’t fall under the category of STEM subjects, would suggest the skills and knowledge gained by creative arts and humanities graduates are not important to the economy or wider society.
This puts prospective arts and humanities students, as well as their parents and supporters, in a difficult position as they are encouraged to seek “value for money” and ultimately “return on investment” from their chosen university course, particularly those from groups and communities currently underrepresented within higher education.
In this session we will challenge those assumptions and provide you with insight on how your students can truly evaluate the real value of their chosen university course, beyond the terms of a high salary, as well discuss the role arts and humanities graduates have to play in getting our economy and society back on track.
Delegates attending this session can expect to:
- Hear how universities such as Goldsmiths are responding to the changing Government attitudes to higher education and those courses perceived to be of “low-value”.
- Gain insight on how creative arts and humanities students fared in the recent Graduate Outcomes Survey and how your students can use these results and Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) data to help them make an informed choice about their future.
- Understand how you can help your future arts and humanities student start to recognise develop the employability skills they’ll need in their future career now.
- Understand why arts & humanities students may hold the key employability skills that the new post-Covid recovery needs.