ukadia's aims are:

-to promote, nationally and internationally, the distinctive character of UK specialist arts and performance institutions in their delivery of Higher Education provision for the creative and cultural industries;

-to extend the range of influence of specialist colleges with key decision makers and stakeholders;

-to strengthen opportunities for networking and partnership work within the network, and between members and other organisations operating in the arts, performance and elsewhere in the creative and cultural industries;

-to provide a structure for the promotion and delivery of the widening participation agenda in Higher Education arts and performance and encourage mobility into the professions serving the creative and cultural industries.

Our objectives are:

-to fulfil an advocacy role in promoting the role and outputs of UK publicly funded arts educational institutions working with the creative, cultural and communications industries nationally and internationally;

-to provide mechanisms, advice and good practice exchange for the purpose of widening participation in arts and performance higher education provision, and to ensure a more diverse workforce for the creative, cultural and communications industries;

-to provide a platform to share good practice in academic development, strategic management and governance for specialist arts institutions;

-to provide professional advice and research to the creative, cultural and communication industries;

-to add value to individual members’ participation in the development and delivery of key national creative, cultural and communications industry strategies;

-to raise the profile of the specialist institutions in higher education for the creative, cultural and communications industries nationally through agreed strategies for targeting key opinion formers.