Bridget's Blog
Bridget’s Blog: Music Education and the Climate Emergency – a conference hot topic
With the 2021 Music Mark Annual Conference now just days away, Bridget reflects on programming Music Education and the Climate Emergency as…
Blog: Time to kick-start your Kickstart
This week, Gary Griffiths looks at the government’s Kickstart scheme and how it can be a useful opportunity for Music Education Hubs…
Bridget’s Blog: All the Hall’s a Stage
Music Mark CEO Bridget Whyte reflects on her evening at the Royal Albert Hall for Music for Youth’s REMIX Prom, All the Hall’s…
Bridget’s Blog: Share your EDI resources to help turn Talk into Action
Music Mark calls out for resources which support your work around Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion to share as part of our sector-wide campaign,…
Bridget’s Blog: Higher Education and Musical Careers
Following reports that the UK’s future music ‘talent pipeline’ could be at risk due to the decline in A-level music take-up, Music Mark…
Bridget’s Blog: How can we reduce our environmental impact as Music Education organisations?
We all know about the lifestyle changes we can make on an individual level to reduce our environmental impact, but what role…
Bridget’s Blog: See you at the Conference
Almost every day I seem to be doing something which seems a little odd or quite novel now but was so normal…
The Hub Support Programme: helping our members to come back stronger
First introduced as a single course to develop leadership skills, Music Mark’s training offer has expanded and evolved significantly over the years into…
Bridget’s Blog: Embedding Youth Voice in Music Education
It shouldn’t, but it always amazes me how articulate and thought-provoking young people can be and how valuable their contribution is to…
Bridget’s Blog: Campaigning to celebrate musical learning, from Why Music to Get Playing
When parents and carers are often the decision-makers in what children learn beyond the classroom, it is essential that we can get…
Bridget’s Blog: Programming a conference in the ‘new normal’
This week, following the announcement of two new keynote speakers for our 2021 conference, CEO Bridget Whyte reflects on the process of…
Bridget’s Blog: A global vision for Music Education
Having been invited to join an International Expert Group to draft a statement for universally shared principles of music education, Music Mark…
