The National Council for Drama Training (NCDT) was a

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of employers in the

theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...

, broadcast and

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, employee representatives and training providers from 1976 to 2012.

History

The National Council for Drama Training (NCDT) was established in 1976 following the publication of the

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation ( pt, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian), commonly referred to simply as the Gulbenkian Foundation, is a Portuguese institution dedicated to the promotion of the arts, philanthropy, science, and education. One ...

report 'Going on the Stage'http://www.gulbenkian.org.uk/pdffiles/--item-1180-199-Going-on-the-Stage.pdf into professional training for drama. NCDT has been supported by the performing arts industry and charged with maintaining standards at the nation's top

drama school A drama school, stage school or theatre school is an undergraduate and/or graduate school or department at a college or university; or a free-standing institution (such as the Drama section at the Juilliard School); which specializes in the pr ...

s. For many years NCDT has been providing assurance for students, their parents and funders that courses approved by NCDT are preparing students for careers in the drama

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. The council existed to act as a champion for the industry by working to optimise support for

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drama training and education, embracing change and development. Its primary role was to

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the highest standards and provides a credible process of quality assurance through accreditation for

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drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has b ...

courses in further and higher education in the UK. In 2012 they merged with the

Conference of Drama Schools The Conference of Drama Schools (CDS) was the organisation which represented the top 21 accredited UK drama schools in the United Kingdom from 1969 until 2012. History Originally founded in 1969 as an educational charitable organization it chang ...

to form

Drama UK Drama UK was an advocate for vocational drama training in the UK, as well as providing accreditation for vocational drama courses, from 2012 to 2016. History Drama UK was formed on 31 July 2012, by the merger of the two main organizations in the ...

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