Sound of Silence: The End of Music in Schools?

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 19 June 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Music education in the UK is in a perilous place, with the largest cuts in spending per pupil for 40 years, falling teacher recruitment numbers, and huge drops in GCSE and A-Level uptake. With a new National Plan for Music Education imminent, will it be enough to ensure music matters? Jude Rogers talks to Chrissy Kinsella, Chief Executive of the London Music Fund, about transforming under-served communities, if learning tunes are really less important than science and tech for career prospects, and why some people still think music is more a luxury than a necessity. “Classical music will always be full of elite, old, white people unless we change it.” “The problem always is and always will be funding.” “Wouldn't it be amazing if every primary school had a music teacher?” “We often focus on academic attainment, but we should also be celebrating music for the joy of music.” “There's such a lack of joined up thinking from central government.” https://www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Jude Rogers. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis Producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Audio production by Jade Bailey THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:16.7	of Fiscal Studies annual report revealed a huge cut to the real term spending per pupil on the
1:21.6	subject in the last decade, 9%, the largest cut in 40 years.
1:28.0	Last week, one of the biggest musicians unions, the ISM, published Music, subject in peril, flagging falling teacher recruitment numbers,
1:36.4	big drops in the uptake of the subject in G.C. an A level, and changes in government policy
1:41.6	that have expedited the decline. A new national plan for music education is also imminent,
1:46.7	although without meaningful consultation with those actually working in the field, the ISM report claims.
1:52.2	Some I argue, of course, that music is a second class subject,
1:55.0	all about a group of kids tooting their recorders, noisoline class.
1:59.0	Less important than science and technology,
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