Arts in schools and colleges gets expert planning

A PLAN to promote the arts in schools and colleges is to be drawn up by a group of experts announced by the Government yesterday.

Arts Minister John O’Donoghue and Education Minister Mary Hanafin have tasked the five-member committee with producing a plan covering a three to five-year period by next May.

The group is chaired by choreographer Mary Nunan, one of two Arts Council members on the committee along with Orlaith McBride, director of the National Association for Youth Drama. The other members are National Council for Technology in Education director Jerome Morrissey, Department of Education assistant chief inspector Padraig MacSitric, and former school principal Derek West who chairs the National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals (NAPD) arts and culture committee.