STEM subjects decreasing the arts.

Last week I read this blog from the head of dance at Ipswich high school, Rebecca Curtis. I find it amazing that a teacher can be so insprinig and so passionate to push dance at this highschool to stop the amount of students decreasing in the Art's subjects.
Rebecca quotes:
'Creative Industries careers currently account for 1 in 20 jobs; contributing £84.1 billion a year to the UK economy. By 2020, these figures are expected to show that Creative Industries will be one of the top three areas of employment in this country. The children of today will be doing jobs that do not even exist yet.'
WOW!!! This was my first thought. If the art's are going to be in the top 3 areas of employment why are most schools not valueing these as a 'proper' subject?
Rebecca continues to talk about how STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and mathmatics) has effected most schools and has lead to either a decrease in students or the subject being removed from the school's curriculum. As she is a very passionate teacher and has the support from the school Ipswich high school now encourage STEAM  (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathmatics) and this has lead to more students taking the subjects at GCSE as well as the other core subjects.

Personally, I feel more schools should be taking some advice from this and encouraging the students to do whatever subjects they enjoy. After all, if the arts are going to be in the top 3 areas of employment by 2020 then clearly there are jobs available for these students. 

Rebecca's Article.  

Rebecca was involved with my last blog from the comments off facebook and has been in touch to say she will answer some interview questions for my inquiry which I think is great news. 

Hope some of you find this as interesting and helpful as I did.