In 2012, the Henley Review of Cultural Education in England highlighted that every child should have access to a wide variety of high-quality cultural experiences which are academically and socially enriching, arm them with useful skills, and which might help them to contribute to Britain’s creative industries in the future.
The report also stated that a sound cultural education should allow children to gain knowledge through the learning of facts, understanding through the development of their critical faculties, and skills through the opportunity to practise specific art forms.
Around the same time, Lord Smith in his Independent Review of British Film called for a new programme to bring film education into every school, so that every child in the UK will have opportunities to see a wide range of films, to learn about film, and to make their own films.
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