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Updates from the UK's music education sector
Bringing Back What Works in Education
March is Music in Our Schools Month, and the need for music education in schools couldn’t be greater. Many people assume music…
Full list of winners at the Music Teacher Awards for Excellence
Outstanding achievements in the UK’s music education sector were celebrated at the Music Teacher Awards for Excellence on 12th March at the Barbican…
Sing for Pleasure announces Scholarship Programme for Young Conductors
Choral charity Sing for Pleasure has launched its third annual Young Conductors programme, which offers a year-long scholarship for the best aspiring…
Transformation Trust seeks UK’s best school bands for Act 10 competition
Pupils who play music together are being encouraged to enter a competition to find the UK’s best school band, with the winner…
Nick Gibb at the Music Ed Expo – the full speech
Minister of State for School Reform Nick Gibb outlines the government’s support for music education in schools. Good morning. It is a…
Launch of Creative Learning through the Arts – an Action Plan for Wales
Creative Learning through the Arts is the response of Welsh Government and the Arts Council of Wales to Professor Dai Smith’s independent…
Teacher training reforms ‘critical’ in Wales – review
Teacher training is at a “critical turning point” and needs to be changed, according to a major independent review for the Welsh…
Creativity in peril as the arts are sidelined
Creative subjects are being squeezed out as schools respond to the government’s new league table measure, urging students to “double up” on…
James McAvoy: ‘Government doesn’t care about upward mobility’ via arts education
James McAvoy has said the government wants “to keep people where they are born” by removing access to arts education. McAvoy was…
