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Updates from the UK's music education sector
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…
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…
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….
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…
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
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….
‘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…
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…
8 Things Top Practicers Do Differently
As my kids were (begrudgingly) practicing their Tae Kwon Do patterns not long ago, I caught myself telling my oldest that he had…
