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Updates from the UK's music education sector
Chancellor endorses art for art’s sake
Public funding for the creative industries is about more than simply an economic calculation, it’s “an investment in who we are as a…
Ten Pieces Proms announced: 23 & 24 July at the Royal Albert Hall
For the second year running, BBC Music’s classical music initiative Ten Pieces will take over the world-famous Royal Albert Hall – this…
EFDSS to receive international lifetime achievement award
National folk arts development agency, the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS), has been named as one of the 2016 recipients…
Classroom gigs ‘key to improving behaviour of London schoolchildren’
London schoolchildren are being taught to take part in music gigs as a way of improving their behaviour in the classroom. Taking…
Streaming and vinyl kept the music industry buoyant in 2015
A huge rise in streaming, combined with the continued resurgence of vinyl, helped keep the British music industry buoyant in 2015. A…
Study shows that arts participation benefits young children with autism
A review of 18 peer-reviewed studies about arts participation, published between 2000 and 2015, adds to the growing evidence about how arts participation…
A-level music marking ‘lottery’ stops young composers getting top grades, study warns
Academics find teachers have little confidence in ‘unreliable’ external marking of compositions at AS- and A-level Young composers are missing out on top A-level grades…
Winners of JAZZ UK’s Will Michael Jazz Education Awards
At a ceremony on 1 December at the Royal College of Music the following Music Hubs and Music Services were awarded Diplomas…
‘The arts give students the ability to cope with uncertainty’ – Peter Green, Headmaster
Despite the protestations of Nicky Morgan and Nick Gibb that the place of the arts in British education is safe (with well-researched…
