Alphr – Piers Linney
“The creative economy is the UK’s GDP powerhouse, with related employment growing at three times the rate of the workforce as a whole. But we can’t sit back and relax: we need to encourage it by breaking out of the disciplinary silos imposed by this country’s education system – science, technology, engineering and maths education, or STEM – and adding arts, turning it into STEAM…Creativity, innovation and original thought is required to generate competitive advantage, and the lines between what is considered to be practical and what is creative are becoming increasingly blurred: Coding requires both logic and creativity…You can no longer say to students: “Are you going to go arty or are you going into maths and sciences?” We have to get over that nonsense. You can’t go down that technical route, especially into technology, without being creative.”(more)