Dance Mapping - Arts Council England

Arts 439
Business and enterprise 233
City technology college 2
Combined 93
Engineering 54
Humanities 92
Languages 222
Maths and computing 249
Music 22
Science 296
Special educational needs 41
Technology 585
Total 2693
Table 48: Specialist schools 53
This expansion and increasing specialisation appears to have led to a major growth in the
popularity of dance in the curriculum, which can be evidenced in the numbers of students
taking public examinations.
GCSE A level
Total Increase Total
Increase
2001 7003 2001 844
Total Increase Total
2002 8266 18% 2002 975 15.5%
2003 10260 24.1% 2003 1202 23.2%
2004 13574 32.3% 2004 1338 11.3%
2005 15730 15.9% 2005 1513 13.1%
Increase
2006 17135 8.9% 144.7% 2006 1725 14% 104%
Table 49: Exam entries 54
In 2006, 313 arts colleges entered 5,757 students and 207 sports colleges entered 3,275
students. 555 other schools entered 6,835 students. This growth in popularity for dance has
created a huge ‘market’ for the skills of the dance artist/ practitioner. There are three principal
reasons for this:
53 Richard Jones W (2007) ‘The changing face of education in England and the possibilities for dance’ animated,
Summer
54 Richard Jones, W (2007)
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