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Member Updates - Coronavirus (Covid-19)

In response to COVID-19: our offices are temporarily closed. All NSEAD staff are working remotely so that our service to you remains uninterrupted. For all queries please contact us by email. Stay safe and healthy

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Welcome to NSEAD

If you have a professional interest in art, craft & design education, NSEAD membership is, quite simply, essential. We are the leading voice for art, craft & design education, across all sectors, all phases, throughout the UK and beyond

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Protecting and promoting art, craft & design education

Supporting our members in the workplace. Setting the standard for professional development. Leading research and best practice.

Resources

Explore the extensive variety of resources available for art and design teachers with members gaining full access

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Publications

Research and reports, papers and presentations about art, craft and design in education can be found here. Explore or purchase our members' magazine and posters and access our international journal

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News

News and members' newsletters that include key information for art, craft and design educators are posted here. Art educator vacancies are also listed in this section.

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Courses & Advice

Courses and conferences, careers advice (members-only) and our NSEAD consultants database are all listed here

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Community & Activism

Find out how NSEAD members can network and influence our work and governance. Vacancies are listed here too

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Trade Union

NSEAD is your specialist trade union, No other teaching union offers this level of subject-specific support – meeting all of your art educator needs

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Forthcoming courses

iJADE 2021 'Hybrid Spaces: Re-imagining pedagogy, practice and research'

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1st - 28th March 2021

The annual conference of the International Journal of Art and Design Education 26 March - 28 March 2021 This year's conference will give you…

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Latest news from NSEAD

Discover more about art, craft and design news and events nationwide.

NSEAD Members' response to the Sewell Report

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NSEAD stands in solidarity with those members of our community whose experiences of institutional racism were diminished and dismissed through the publication…

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Nick Gibb MP invites NSEAD to discuss a new curriculum for art & design

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DFE

Following a recent meeting where NSEAD president Liz Macfarlane met with Jane Hunt MP, the Society has been invited by Nick Gibb, Minister for School…

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Alex Monroe: Designs for Hope 21

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Craft

Design

Alex Monroe has announced the return of their jewellery design competition, ‘Designs for Hope’. This year the competition is for children and young people.

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