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Updates from the UK's music education sector
Telford and Norwich students perform in Sweden
A group of young musicians from In Harmony Telford and Sistema in Norwich were among 600 children performing in Sweden as part of a cultural exchange programme….
Exciting opportunity to perform at Southbank Centre’s Meltdown Festival
Do you play French horn at Grade 5 standard or above? If you do, you could be performing at Southbank Centre’s Meltdown festival,…
Julian Lloyd Webber takes up post at Birmingham Conservatoire
The news comes almost a year after Lloyd Webber was forced to retire from playing the cello because of a neck injury…
Nicky Morgan warns against ‘scatter-gun’ use of pupil premium
Education secretary Nicky Morgan is set to warn schools they must not spend pupil premium funding in a “scatter-gun fashion.” In a…
Creative industries ‘booming’ in UK
The UK’s creative industries are having a boom in employment and exports, says a report from the Department for Culture, Media and…
Centre for Young Musicians collaborates with Saffron Hall on Saturday school
October 2015 will see the opening of the third music centre established outside London by the Morley College based Centre for Young…
BYMT new video – Students past and present
Bromley Youth Music Trust has put together a short video of past and present students speaking about how BYMT and the music…
Lady Kidron – “Tragedy that successive Education Ministers have devalued the arts in a structural way within the curriculum”
Peers in the House of Lords responded passionately to a motion tabled by Conservative peer Baronness Wheatcroft, calling for increased support for the creative…
The beat goes on at Music Day in Thurrock
Thurrock Music Services brought together 120 pupils from local primary schools in a dazzling celebration of World Music for Music Day on …
