🚨 We've written to Education Secretary Gillian Keegan raising serious concerns about the squeeze on grant funding for arts courses in Higher Education. The decision undermines Treasury ambitions for the creative industries and leaves our talent pipeline in jeopardy.

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I’m looking for current ITE mentors on school-based routes in England to take part in research about the preparation they received for their role. Please retweet. Interested mentors, please email me on [email protected] BERA Early Career Researcher Network

Today applicants to Hub Investment Programme were told if they were successful. The Arts Council England release states that this is a landmark event and cements the NPME. BUT still crisis in teacher recruitment & no resolution to ongoing TPS funding crisis.Department for Education sort it

Brilliant to see this continuing commitment to music education research by BCU Research

To speak of ‘the music community’ without qualifying which community this is seems rather a strange thing to do.

Good to meet and chat with Darren Henley and with Nancy Evans talk about Birmingham Contemporary Music Group great music education work.

Final 24 hrs to contribute to this survey!

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Truly, the price of everything and the value of nothing. And I say that as an aluma of one of their ‘world leading’ Royal Colleges.

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Finally getting the chance to read the Listen Imagine Compose toolkit for primary. This introduction from one of the authors -Nancy Evans - jumped out at me. As someone who spends her days trying to encourage those early musical explorations,I couldn’t agree more Nancy Evans

Making funding cuts to subject knowledge enhancement courses ‘part-way through a recruitment cycle is unprecedented’, and could lead to further trainee dropouts, says UCET in a letter to the education secretary, exclusively seen by Tes
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Teachers’ autonomy has been reduced by an education system that stops teachers from being ‘the educators they want to be’, says National Education Union president Emma Rose 🧡 at #NEU2024
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MT is doing some research. We are looking to speak to teachers who have made the switch from teaching A Level music courses to teaching vocational music courses. Please get in touch if this is you.🎶

And I highly recommend this online accredited world music pedagogy CPD course when the next dates are announced mtiis.co/wmphome/

John finney James Manwaring It has to be about balancing music that I think is important, music other people think is important, music chosen by children, music of local artists, music that is developmentally suitable, or teaches a particular concept, or cultural point of learning, and broadening experience

A refreshingly thoughtful and temperate blog from John finney exploring the relationship between musical knowledge, music cal relevance and Mus cal development.

Dr Martin Emo Mark Prof Martin Fautley DrAnthonyAnderson John finney Gary Spruce Elizabeth Stafford Music Teachers Association Also this from me and Prof Martin Fautley published by ISM ISM Trust

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Really good to have a reminder of the 7 stages from Lucy Green’s original informal learning research - Dr Emily Wilson is exploring stage 4 in her informal composing session #TheBigGigBangkok

A very late withdrawal has left us a trumpet short in the National Children’s Concert Band for the residential course starting on Saturday! Any young trumpeters in year 6-9, c. Gr.5 standard, please get in touch!

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