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Creative Partners
WE Schools
WE Schools is a unique, four-step active citizenship programme that inspires young people to identify the local and global issues that spark their passion, and empowers them with the skills and tools to make change...
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Research and Policy
Coffitivity
A team of researchers, led by Ravi Mehta at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign tested the effects of varying levels of noise on participants’ creative thinking skills, proving that moderately loud background noise boosts creative thinking...
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Videos
Sir Ken Robinson - radio interview in Toronto
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Creative Partners
Craft Scotland
Craft Scotland is the national development agency supporting makers and promoting craft...
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Online Teaching Tools
Get Into Live Music
Get into live music is all about working in the live music industry This site hopes to open your eyes to the huge variety of careers in the industry – and the different ways to get there...
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Creative Partners
Citizens Theatre
The Citizens Theatre presents a mixture of contemporary versions of classic plays and new Scottish drama...
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Online Teaching Tools
Young Engineers and Science Clubs
A network of over 430 science, engineering and technology clubs throughout Scotland, with a membership of more than 5,000 young people engaging in practical hands-on science and engineering activities to enthuse them to pursue a career in science...
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Creative Partners
Edinburgh Art Festival
Edinburgh Art Festival is the UK’s largest annual festival of visual art offering an unrivalled programme of exhibitions, commissions and special events...
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Quotes
“The high-skilled minority (characterised by their creativity, analytical and problem solving capabilities and communication skills) will have strong bargaining power in the labour market, whilst the low-skilled will bear the brunt of the drive for flexibility and cost reduction...”
—The Future of Work: Jobs and Skills in 2030 (UKCES)
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Online Teaching Tools
5 Questions For... Scottish composer Paul Leonard-Morgan
Creative Scotland catches up with Scottish composer Paul Leonard-Morgan whose latest work can be found soundtracking the music for the new Judge Dredd film...
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Creative Partners
Horsecross Arts
Horsecross Arts Ltd runs Perth Theatre and Perth Concert Hall...
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Research and Policy
Foundation Apprenticeships in Creative and Digital Media
Tom Harley, Education Programme Manager from Skills Development Scotland explores Foundation Apprenticeships in Creative & Digital Media...
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Creative Partners
Indepen-dance
Indepen-dance is an inclusive dance development company offering creative movement classes to people with diverse abilities, their carers, family members and volunteers...
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Research and Policy
The traditional office is dead. Here's why
Innovative companies have embraced the theory that playful features within an office can boost creativity...
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Videos
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Research and Policy
Understanding How to Frame Your Creative Expertise
Again and again I see talented people with ideas they want to share – books they want to write, talks they want to give, businesses they want to launch – holding back because they think they "don't know enough" about their topic...
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Online Teaching Tools
Career Education Standard 3-18 - Reflection Tool on Learner Entitlements
A reflection tool to explore how well an establishment or service is delivering against the Career Education Standard Entitlements including the development of skills for learning, life and work and an understanding of enterprise, entrepreneurship and self-employment as a career opportunity...
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Inspiring Moments
Supporting Your Ambition
Dumfries and Galloway CLN created a one-day conference, bringing together a wide range of partners to support and advise young people on careers, further education and training in the land based industries and creative sector...
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Creative Partners
Scottish Ballet
Scottish Ballet, founded in 1969, is Scotland’s national dance company...
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Tweets
@ESskills Twitter Feed for Developing the Young Workforce (DYW)
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