While Scotland is currently perhaps not as well resourced in cultural management training opportunities as other parts of the UK, undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in arts management subjects are offered by the Cultural Business Division of Glasgow Caledonian University's Caledonian Business School, and by the Department of Production and Cultural Management at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh.

The Centre for Cultural Policy Research (CCPR) at the University of Glasgow is a leading institution in cultural policy research in Scotland.

Librarianship is taught at the University of Strathclyde's Department of Computer and Information Sciences and at the Department of Information Management of Robert Gordon University, while undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Archives and Records Management are offered by the University of Dundee's Centre for Archive and Information Studies (CAIS).

Certificate, postgraduate Diploma and MLitt programmes in Museum and Gallery Studies are offered by the School of Art History at the University of St Andrews.

The UK's business membership organisation Arts & Business (A&B) operates a Scottish branch office which promotes and encourages partnerships between the private sector and the arts, to their mutual benefit and to that of the community at large.

Important cultural management support organisations include The Audience Business, which works on behalf of 30 key theatres, galleries, festivals and touring companies arts organisations in and around Edinburgh; the Glasgow-based arts marketing and audience development agency Glasgow Grows Audiences Ltd (GGA); and the Glasgow-based arts management and consultancy company Scottish Cultural Enterprise, which runs New Deal for Musicians, an annual £250,000 government training and employment programme which provides professional mentoring and supporting services to unemployed young musicians.

Co-ordinated by The Lighthouse, the Creative Entrepreneurs Club is an important networking organisation for designers, thinkers, doers, creatives, writers, analysts, stylists, musicians, DJs, gamers, architects and cultural academics; it brings these people together to network, pitch their new ideas, listen to inspiring speakers and showcase their work. The CEC hosts around six networking events each year, and has already attracted in excess of 2,200 members including Directors or Senior Partners of the most dynamic companies in Scotland.

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