So pleased to see our article on the experiences of teacher educators in Vietnam during COVID in press Dr Shannon Ludgate CSPACE Research BCU HELS eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

If you're involved in music education or the music industry in any way then before you post anything upbeat or celebratory today, pause for a moment and share your thoughts on the cuts facing university music departments instead. Oxford Brookes University is to close its department

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Warwick Mansell Here’s some background to mess Nick Gibb policies has made of music education
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ISM has also been chasing responses to their own correspondence (1/2)

Interesting and concerning background, indeed, on state of music education policy in this piece by Dr Ally Daubney including: In 2008-09, 808 new secondary music trainees registered on courses. For 2022-23, the figure was 301, against a target of 470.

Deborah Annetts ISM Prof Martin Fautley Dr Ally Daubney An important question.
A new Schools Minister will clearly need time to wade through the 'in tray'. I hope he/she finds your letter near to the top of it.

Don't suppose Deborah Annetts from ISM will ever get an answer to her letter from Nick Gibb now he's off/gone?

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It’s a thin end of the wedge as Martin points out so clearly if Ofsted start accepting weak justifications for the significant narrowing of the curriculum.👇

Rather getting the feeling that the quiet weekend I had earmarked to be finishing some writing about music teaching & learning may be sidetracked by having to keep an eye on my blood pressure as a result of reading stuff on X-twitter!

The fact that a high-profile & opinionated head can say music is unpopular, and therefore drop it after Y8 is one issue, but another issue - and worse, I think - is that Ofsted then reward this errant behaviour with an 'outstanding'. Two wrongs don't make a right?

I hope Warwick Mansell won't be cross with me for citing from his subscription site, but this (Attached), for a well-known Ofsted outstanding school, I find, well...words fail me (again)...

Words fail me...