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Study shows that arts participation benefits young children with autism
A review of 18 peer-reviewed studies about arts participation, published between 2000 and 2015, adds to the growing evidence about how arts participation…
A-level music marking ‘lottery’ stops young composers getting top grades, study warns
Academics find teachers have little confidence in ‘unreliable’ external marking of compositions at AS- and A-level Young composers are missing out on top A-level grades…
700 children take part in Stoke-on-Trent City Music Service Christmas Concerts
Stoke-on-Trent City Music Service have received an impressive amount of local press coverage this week for their City Songbird’s Christmas Concerts with…
Disabled children learn on adapted musical instruments in S4E Music Service programme
For the first time anywhere in the world, disabled children are being taught on a range of adapted musical instruments capable of…
Winners of JAZZ UK’s Will Michael Jazz Education Awards
At a ceremony on 1 December at the Royal College of Music the following Music Hubs and Music Services were awarded Diplomas…
‘The arts give students the ability to cope with uncertainty’ – Peter Green, Headmaster
Despite the protestations of Nicky Morgan and Nick Gibb that the place of the arts in British education is safe (with well-researched…
RNCM wins Times Higher Education award
The Royal Northern College of Music has won the 2015 Times Higher Education award for excellence and innovation in the arts for…
Surrey Music Hub’s Orchestra for young people with SEN/D goes international
Within it’s first year Surrey Music Hub’s Unlimited Potential (UP!) has achieved huge things including a ground breaking performance at the Royal Albert…
Tri-Borough Music Hub’s Seven Seeds Performance with 1200 young people
On 23 June 2015, the Tri-borough Music Hub, in collaboration with their partners and schools, staged the world premier of Seven Seeds…