In the context of recent government announcements about cultural education, Demos today challenged cultural professionals and educationalists to provide a new and coherent direction for creative learning and for encouraging creativity through culture.

Culture and Learning: Towards a New Agenda, a consultation paper written by John Holden, invites debate and responses. The paper's primary focus is on England, although many of the issues are equally relevant outside England. Cultural organisations, the education sector and the wider public are asked for their views on:

• How to embed cultural learning more firmly in the education and learning sectors and in cultural organisations
• How to identify the most effective leaders to drive improvement in cultural learning
• How to develop a set of shared standards, and a definition of excellence relating to cultural learning
• How to improve the profile, scale and effectiveness of cultural learning

http://www.demos.co.uk/publications//cultureandlearningconsultationpaper