ABSTRACT
In 1999 the appearance of All Our Futures: Creativity, Culture and Education, the report from the National Advisory Committee on Creative and Cultural Education (NACCCE) was greeted by those who knew of it (for it was not circulated to all schools!) with relief and delight. Mike Newby, Chair of the Universities Council for the Education of Teachers, told the committee:
‘How exciting it was to read this report. It isn’t often that a document of this kind can stir in me the kinds of feelings this one did – a desire, mainly, to stand on my chair and cheer – but yours hit the spot. At last some fresh thinking about the future, carrying with it the authority of not one but two Secretaries of State.’
