Monday, 16 July 2012

Are art students losing out to art conversion students?

 I have noticed recently an increasing amount of people involved in the arts how have either taken a secondary degree in the arts or who have had some kind of conversion/postgrad qualification. Now there is nothing wrong with this, but perhaps it would be prudent of Arts based educational establishments to further prepare thier students for life beyond university with more applied skills. Now of course there are many creative entrepreneurial students from arts backgrounds; however it remains that there is still a low employability rate from this area post graduation. 
In order to solve this universites, colleges etc must provide at least some lessons in some form of business related areas, this would give all students a better founding when they are released into the real world, whether they go on to be artists, gallerists or waiters. Even though there are great career services at many of these establishments, not enough of the students regular see or visit these services. 
Because of this I propose the introduction of some kind of compolsaory careers lecture for arts students to attend once a term in order to give them a better chance of getting a job within the arts to ensure the developement of the field upon them graduating. 
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