Advanced British Standard: Share your views

The Department for Education consultation on the proposed reforms to post-16 education is open and will close on 20th March 2024.

Your views on the introduction of the Advanced British Standard during this consultation period are crucial. Music Mark urge you to submit your response to protect the musical foundations you are giving young people. There are 10 pages in the survey, but we understand and respect you may not have time to complete the entire survey. Therefore we have created a concise guidance document to help you decide which parts of the survey you should answer based on how much time you have and the areas you are particularly interested in sharing your views on.

I can spare less than one minute:
Share your thoughts on social media (X, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn) tagging @musicmarkuk #Dfe #AdvancedBritishStandard

I can spare 5 minutes:
Complete page 1 (Qs 1 – 10 your details) and page 2 (Qs 11- 13 your views on the overarching aims)

I can spare 10 minutes:
Complete page 1 (Qs 1 – 10 your details) and page 2 (Qs 11- 13 your views on the overarching aims)
Complete page 7 (Qs 43 – 47 workforce and support) and page 8 (Q48-58 implications)

I can spare 20 minutes or longer:
Skim read Qs11 – 58 in the table provided
Complete page 1 (Qs 1 – 10 your details)
Complete any questions where you have a view to share

If you teach in Secondary Education your input is important in Q48 (page 8) and we have suggested a statement in answer to Q58 which can be found in our guidance document.

There is also an ‘easy read’ version that you can offer to young people to give their views.

Complete the full survey here. Make sure to download our full guidance document which details a full breakdown of the 10 page survey.