When Save The Music started in 1997, music education funding cuts in public schools were on the rise. School boards and superintendents often cited economic strain as a justification for schools cutting music programs from the regular schedule and relegating music and the arts to after school or enrichment programs. Looking at the music education funding landscape twenty-five years later, we can see that music education budget cuts disproportionately impact school districts that serve students o...
[This is a revised version of an earlier post, updated with new data for 2022-23 made available by HESA] · The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) make available in the public domain figures on cohorts across the HE sector, which can be broken down by subject (in terms of the subject groups they use) and institution. The main page to access for this data is here (I use the section entitled ‘HE student enrolments by HE provider and subject of study’). For a recent conference paper, ‘When Departments End: Case Studies of UK Music Dep ...
All Party Parliamentary Group logo - high res.pdf 1 22/01/2019 09:45 Music Education: State of the Nation Report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Music Education, the Incorporated...
Budget cuts have school districts slashing many programs. Its necessary to keep music education in our schools though!
and music departments next summer, following a vote by its... 'Squandered' Dr Wendy Paterson, of Parents Against Cuts at... " The Conservative Party's higher education spokesman, Chris...
of music education can be so far from our own as to be almost unrecognisable. Take the case... being cuts. Likewise, the national broadcaster, the BBC, encountering the same problems, is...
Statistics Education Research Journal Volume 1 Number 1 May 2002 Editors Carmen Batanero Flavia Jolliffe Associate Editors Annie Morin M. Gabriella Ottaviani Christine Reading Chris Wild...
If the economic damage wrought by the coronavirus pandemic goes unchecked, the nation stands to lose 1.89 million education jobs over the next three years, according to a new analysis by the National Education Association. Stated another way, we could lose one-fifth of the workforce that powers public schools and higher education institutions. Those cuts will not only impact the educators who receive those pink slips and their families. It will also profoundly impact the 50 million students who attend public schools and their families. ...
live music: The UK Live Music Census 2017 report Version 1.1. updated 28 Feb 2018... 14 Chapter 1: The economic value of live music. 17 Chapter 2: The social and cultural value of live...
The music industry relies on a talent pipeline of accomplished and dedicated music students to produce the highly skilled professionals of the future. We need them to play in our world-class orchestras, contribute to world-class recordings, become music teachers, so they can develop the next generation of talent, or perhaps even be the next Skepta, Adele or Ed Sheeran. Music is vital to our economy, our culture and our society. It is one of our greatest national assets and will play a crucial role in our post-pandemic recovery – so it’s mor ...