A “horrible disparity” is opening between state and private schools in the provision of creative education, the director of the V&A, one of the country’s leading museums, has said.
Speaking at the launch of the Young V&A museum, aimed at children from birth to 14 years, Tristram Hunt said creative education was being downgraded or excluded in many state schools, leading to a 60% fall in the numbers of young people taking art and design subjects at GCSE.
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