Latvia/ 8.3 Arts and cultural education  

8.3.4 Higher arts education and professional training

Arts education is supervised by the state agency The Centre for Intangible Heritage and Culture Education and is available on 3 levels:

• primary arts education is available at 145 municipal arts schools with total 20 905 pupils (in 2010): 13 714 pupils were involved in music education programmes, 6 906 pupils in visual art education programmes, and 285 pupils in dance education programme.
• secondary arts education is available at 14 state run and 2 municipal art schools; and
• higher arts education is available at 4 State Higher Education Establishments – Latvian Academy of Culture, Jazeps Vitols Latvian Academy of Music, Latvian Academy of Art and the Latvian Culture College. In 2011, the Latvian Culture College changed its legal status and now it is incorporated in the Latvian Academy of Culture, in future aiming to integrate and coordinate the academic curricula of both institutions.

There are several arts education study programmes at other state and private universities, e.g. Riga Teacher Training and Education Management Academy (programme for music and dance teachers), Liepaja University (programme for music teachers and innovative programme in new media and computer technologies; also programme for cultural management), Baltic International Academy (cultural management programme), The University College of Economics and Culture (cultural management programme, the programme on management of entertainment and the recreation industry). Riga International School of Economics and Business Administration has launched a Masters programme in Audiovisual Arts.

See chapter 3.4.4 about Baltic Film School and the study "Business Models and Value Chains in Audiovisual Media" about audiovisual education in the Baltic countries.

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