1. Four years of increasing participation in performing arts education.
Transitions 20/40
Four years of increasing participation in performing arts education.

2. Transitions 20/40 Funded pre-tertiary performing arts training
Students are from SIMD 20/40 datazones
First funding cycle ran from
Second funding cycle will run from

3. Inequality of opportunity
Visible in performing arts- much media attention
Also detectible in small specialist institutions.
SIMD 20 numbers were as low as 7.4% in 2013
Increased to 11.7% in 2014/15. National Average is 16%.

4. Supported Students on Transitions 20/40
Funded numbers increased every year
Peaked in 2016/17 with 187
Slightly under-recruited from initial proposal

5. How determinant is SIMD status?
It took me a while to work that out. I was like ‘Should I be offended? Are they calling me poor?’’
T20/40 Drama Student

6. Other barriers within SIMD?
Deaf students
Care experienced students
Remote students

7. Deaf Students Two deaf drama students on Transitions 20/40 in 2013/14
Strong partnerships with Solar Bear
Lack of representation in profession

8. Deaf Students Provoked cultural shift in RCS
Deaf Awareness Training, Introduction to BSL
Introduction of UK’s first BA Performance in BSL

9. Care Experienced/Carers
Determinant barrier to young persons prospects
Not often identified using SIMD
Case was made for specific students’ eligibility

10. Care Experienced/Carers
Location of the Kibble in relation to SIMD 20/40 datazones
SIMD 20
SIMD 40

11. Care Experienced/Carers
96% of Care experienced young people do not go to university
Care experience is now a formal eligibility criteria for T20/40
In 2016/17 8 T20/40 students declared they were care experienced and 5 students declared caring responsibilities

12. Students from remote areas
‘It is extremely expensive to both travel down and stay in Glasgow for the courses. I wouldn’t be able to afford that, and my family wouldn’t be able to afford that without the funding’
T20/40 Drama Student

13. Geographic Spread of students
Map of 2015/16 Cohort
T20/40 now has 3 students from the western isles
ODBL to be used
Rurality now to be recognised

14. Students from remote areas
Doing Transitions, it was kind of an opportunity to grow up if you know what I mean? To mature, even by doing those steps, getting on the train by yourself, staying in a hotel by yourself when you’re which is really scary if you’re from a place that is really tiny, in a city that you don’t know into a class with people who you’ve got no idea who’s going to be there or anything like that.
T20/40 Drama Student

15. The future of T20/40 SIMD 20 Care experienced young people
Those estranged from their family
BAME
Deaf students
Remote learners
7-11 year olds.