As a unemployed graduate, I choose to research the arts issues about tough conditions and situation of students or graduates graduated in Art and design courses. The purpose could to help me deeply understand few questions in the Part B, eg. where are your mainly income from and how do you continued to develop your skills.
The method of research adopted the secondary online sources; it could to support a clearly big picture for the UK Creative arts graduates. This research based on the two main surveys: The UK Graduate Careers Survey 2011 which include 30 universities and interviewed with 17851 final year students. The Creative industries student research report interviewed 161 Creative Arts students from 15 uk universities and Colleges for 2009 graduates and 31 University and Colleges for 2010 graduates.
Base on the Job guiding of Art and design courses on the Target Jobs (2011) claims the art graduated are good at be lateral thinker and creative problem-solvers, they have many career options to get a job from organizations, for example, take up a professional role in education or the wider art world; work in galleries or museums as senior museum exhibit designer, work in Miller auction, web designer or packaging designer in the companies. But mostly of them will be self-employed or doing temporary employment, then the unfixed income comes from selling the artwork to gallery or by online. (McIntyre, Hann ,N.D)
The '' From learning to earning report' by the Arts Council of England (2002) reported the employed design graduates working in: 'the affordable workspace and sharing facilities and equipment with others;
their own studio and making and selling directly to clients or galleries;
arts centers, galleries, schools or hospitals as makers in residence;
small and medium-sized enterprises or design studios, as model makers for film animation, architecture, advertising or prototyping;
or on large-scale commissions as part of urban and rural regeneration or cultural tourism."
As the same time, base on the figure from Creative Industries: the regional Dimension, 2000,
"33% of creative industry employment is in London, and many graduates seek to work in the capital.' the 'From learning to earning report" point out a issues that is 'Both rural Cornwall and urban newcastle are tying to retain more graduates in their regions with proposals for low cost managed work space and career development programmes.' There has a imbalance labour market demand and supply for the design graduate and market.
The '' From learning to earning report' by the Arts Council of England (2002) reported the employed design graduates working in: 'the affordable workspace and sharing facilities and equipment with others;
their own studio and making and selling directly to clients or galleries;
arts centers, galleries, schools or hospitals as makers in residence;
small and medium-sized enterprises or design studios, as model makers for film animation, architecture, advertising or prototyping;
or on large-scale commissions as part of urban and rural regeneration or cultural tourism."
As the same time, base on the figure from Creative Industries: the regional Dimension, 2000,
"33% of creative industry employment is in London, and many graduates seek to work in the capital.' the 'From learning to earning report" point out a issues that is 'Both rural Cornwall and urban newcastle are tying to retain more graduates in their regions with proposals for low cost managed work space and career development programmes.' There has a imbalance labour market demand and supply for the design graduate and market.
The UK Graduate Careers Survey 2010 found only 25% of students from arts or humanities courses expect to land a graduate job at the end of their degrees, it is the lowest employment rate among all graduates. Also, the art student has the lowest graduate average salary expectations from job hunters,’Finalists with the lowest expectations (£ 19,700) are studying arts or humanities students , compared with the law students who has the highest expectations are average of £24,800 , and business &finance expecting an average of £24800. "
For this reason, managing director of high fliers research, Martin Birchall highlights that students from arts & humanities courses and those who’ve had little or no work experience during their time at university are the least confident about the future and expect to earn almost £50,000 less than graduates with business, finance or law degrees during their first five years of employment. (Highfliers research ltd).
In addition, Creative industries student research report pointed out there are only 9.3% of graduates found a job in their chosen career, 17.3% for a non-ideal industry job and 51.3% had no option but to take a job outside of their field of study, and 22.1% is unemployed after graduated at last 6 months. There have 87.5% of graduates have launched themselves as paid freelancers, 12.5% have set up their own creative business after graduating. （Creative industries student research, 2011）
As above dates, all of them proved the issue that the creative art students has a very tough situation to found a ideally job. On the another side, society wasted talents who have great creative capacity, the educated resource of university also been chucked away, for example, a art student who already has more than 4 years art and design learning experience and he is able to offer up great talents in creative industries, but he couldn't to found a ideally job in the imbalance market, possibly he is one of 51.3% who take a job outside of their field of study and been a promotion sales in a retail, either he is one of 22.1% who is unemployed after 6 months graduated.
For this reason, managing director of high fliers research, Martin Birchall highlights that students from arts & humanities courses and those who’ve had little or no work experience during their time at university are the least confident about the future and expect to earn almost £50,000 less than graduates with business, finance or law degrees during their first five years of employment. (Highfliers research ltd).
In addition, Creative industries student research report pointed out there are only 9.3% of graduates found a job in their chosen career, 17.3% for a non-ideal industry job and 51.3% had no option but to take a job outside of their field of study, and 22.1% is unemployed after graduated at last 6 months. There have 87.5% of graduates have launched themselves as paid freelancers, 12.5% have set up their own creative business after graduating. （Creative industries student research, 2011）
As above dates, all of them proved the issue that the creative art students has a very tough situation to found a ideally job. On the another side, society wasted talents who have great creative capacity, the educated resource of university also been chucked away, for example, a art student who already has more than 4 years art and design learning experience and he is able to offer up great talents in creative industries, but he couldn't to found a ideally job in the imbalance market, possibly he is one of 51.3% who take a job outside of their field of study and been a promotion sales in a retail, either he is one of 22.1% who is unemployed after 6 months graduated.
There have few reasons about the tough situation of art and design graduators: Firstly, They are ‘plan careers less’, there has 46% of creative art graduates did not receive any formal advice either training from their Uinversity or College to assist preparation for a career option (Creative industries student research report, 2010). Without employability supporting, the arts students confused about their careers plan, also they don’t know where could to apply for a ideally job in their chosen career. Secondly, 'the Art and design students carry on their art studies because of a passion for their subject, but the career comes later' (Rebecca, BBC,2007) it means arts student study purely on the basis that they are interesting, rather than the fact that it will bring them money and status in years to come. Thirdly, at school they would feel more motivated and self-worth, when they went out the school, they would feel less bright, less worthy less valuable than those studying the ‘accepted’ core courses, like as law or science.(BBC,2007) Then, it stopped them to open the door and looking for a job.
As the Creative industries student research report recommend that universities could to enhance graduate employability with online training courses or offer a value-added advice for graduates, who plan to do freelance working or creative business ownership after graduated. As the same time, the local council is doing more to encourage and support creative entrepreneurship as these businesses will eventually start to employ staff, pay Corporation Tax, National insurance, VAT. （Arts Council of England,2002） The last but not the least, from the education and module designed, the creative art student should to been offered more information about develop products, services, that will help they open the doors after graduated. (Creative industries student research report, 2010, Career geek, 2011)
I hope after 3 years fantastic art studying, there will not be the end for a art graduate to do their passion and come true their dream. There will have more supporting from university and local council, and then more options and bigger labour markets for them, in the furture.
Reference：
Arts Council of England， 2002，From learning to earning: Connecting art, craft and design in higher education with the creative industries: a review of regional issues, online copy:
http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/media/uploads/documents/publications/315.pdf
http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/media/uploads/documents/publications/315.pdf
The UK Graduate Careers Survey, 2011, High fliers, online copy: http://www.highfliers.co.uk/download/Release2011.pdf
The UK Graduate Careers Survey, 2007, High fliers, online copy:
UK Creative Graduate Research, 2010, Creative Industries Students Rebel, online copy:
BBC, 2007, Arts students ‘plan careers less’, online http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6633141.stm
Career geek, The overview of the UK Graduate market in 2011, online: http://www.careergeekblog.com/2011/09/12/overview-of-the-uk-graduate-market-in-2011/
McIntyre C, N.D. , Graduate Design Courses, internationalgraduate.net, online: http://www.internationalgraduate.net/articles/art-design.htm
Hann J, N.D., Graduate Art and Design Courses, internationalgraduate.net, online:
http://www.internationalgraduate.net/articles/design.htm
Target Jobs, 2011, Areas of work: Fine art, onlne:
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