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A Response to the Institute of Fiscal Studies Report
What is the ‘value’ of a degree? Yesterday, BBC News ran with the headline ‘Find out which university degrees could earn you most across your lifetime’, highlighting a new report by the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS). The report estimated that…
Music Education in Schools: Latest News
Schools Manager Update: June 2026 We are near the end of the exam period for schools, anticipating results day in August. As we wait for reports on how many Music GCSEs and A levels have been taken and…
Research Short: Challenging the salvation stories of music education
This week, I spoke with Hanna Backer Johnsen on her recent article, ‘Challenging the salvation stories of music education: Adolescent music school students narrating their musical lives’ in Research Studies in Music Education. Using narrative inquiry,…








