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Eurovision Song Contest now a university course

Despite being more than 8,000 miles away from Europe, Australia competed in the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time ever this…

9th Jun 2015

George Osborne’s £4.5bn savings plan: what’s being cut?

Schools, colleges and universities Both the Department for Education and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills – the government’s two main…

9th Jun 2015

How to make a classical superstar – Britain’s conservatoires and their graduates

If you asked someone to list the things that have made Britain admired round the world, it’s a fair bet our musical…

9th Jun 2015

School’s replacement for levels spans early years to GCSE

A Hampshire secondary school has developed an assessment system to run from its primary cluster’s early years classes right up to GCSE….

9th Jun 2015

BYMT’s Little Piano Virtuosi perform BBC Ten Pieces

Bromley Youth Music Trust’s Little Piano Virtuosi perform BBC 10 Pieces at their spring term 2015 end of term concert. The group…

8th Jun 2015

Sandwell Youth Symphony Orchestra perform at Shireland Collegiate Academy

Watch a clip from Sandwell Music Service’s Youth orchestra  performing at Shireland Collegiate Academy on 17th March 2015. https://youtu.be/ycjqua4HVSU

8th Jun 2015

Telford school children perform Night on a Bare Mountain

Over 300 school children from Old Park Primary School in Telford have performed in their own version of Modest Mussorgsky’s Night on a Bare Mountain….

8th Jun 2015

‘To build character, schools must give their pupils a growth mindset and a rounded education in the arts’

The former star of TV hit ‘Tough Young Teachers’ picks apart the current vogue for promoting ‘character education’ The issue of building…

8th Jun 2015

Should young people study the arts? – a Get Creative debate from the Hay Festival

Young people are often told to prioritise some subjects over others, to focus on getting a job and to think about the…

8th Jun 2015
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