A survey in 2007 found that the median annual spending by an organisation on the training and continuing professional development of music education workers was £150 per practitioner. 40-60% of practitioners, and 60-85% of self-employed and mixed-employment practitioners, spent their own money on training during the year, often significantly more than the median amount spent by employers.
A sound investment- workforce development in music education, Scottish Arts Council (SAC) 2007

It was stated in 2007 that 39% of employees in the creative industries had degree level qualifications, compared to 24% within the economy as a whole, and that 10% of creative industry employees had post-graduate qualifications, compared to 7% within the economy as a whole.
The Creative Economy Programme: A Summary of Projects Commissioned in 2006/07, Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), August 2007

A survey commissioned by the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) suggested that more than half the UK's creative businesses had no senior management with business strategy training, and in 90% of creative businesses, less than half of the senior management were trained in business strategy.
Creating growth: How the UK can develop world-class creative businesses, NESTA, 2006

A NESTA survey suggested that less than 40% of creative businesses participated in networking ideas with other businesses in similar areas, of which only 16% did so regularly.
Creating growth: How the UK can develop world-class creative businesses, NESTA, 2006

In 2005-06, of the 15,000 permanent staff and 33,000 contractual staff employed by ACE's regularly funded organisations, 9,600 were offered development training. 86% of regularly funded organisations offered this service.
Regularly funded organisations: key data from the 2005/06 annual submission, Arts Council England (ACE), July 2007

Between 1995 and 2005 creative firms had an average survival rate of 3 years, similar to overall average rates for new business survival.
The Creative Economy Programme: A Summary of Projects Commissioned in 2006/07, DCMS, August 2007