V&A "to step in and do something" about fall in UK students studying design and technology
V&A director Tristram Hunt has announced that the museum will spearhead a campaign to get more children taking design and technology subjects at GCSE level in the UK.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today Show this morning, the former shadow education secretary said that the museum had to "step in and do something" about the falling number of students taking arts subjects.
He warned that the number of secondary school children doing GCSE's in creative subjects has fallen by 40 per cent in the last seven years.
Hunt, who was a Labour MP until he took up the role of director of the V&A at the start of the year, said the Conservative government was responsible for the decline in students studying creative subjects.
Tristram Hunt, an expert in 18th- and 19th-century history and former shadow education secretary, took over the director role at the V&A in January 2017 "It's definitely as a result of of the accountability measures that the government have introduced over the last seven years, which makes it less rewarding in terms of points for schools to emphasise the arts and humanities," he said.
Hunt also blamed cuts to school budgets for forcing state-funded schools to drop subjects that require expensive educational equipment.
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