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Updates from the UK's music education sector
Streaming and vinyl kept the music industry buoyant in 2015
A huge rise in streaming, combined with the continued resurgence of vinyl, helped keep the British music industry buoyant in 2015. A…
300 Southwark Primary School children take part in Christmas Splash 15
Following a series of weekly in-school vocal workshops through Southwark Music Hub, Thursday 10 th December saw over 300 Southwark primary school…
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…
