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This reminds me of “what do you mean, you have to account for your time, you’re a full professor?” conversations with US colleagues!

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Discover how LICP and others are transforming how we regard and teach composition in schools. 🎶 musicteachermagazine.co.uk/content/opinio…

Nice piece in Music Teacher in which I am interviewed about being honoured with the lifetime achievement award for music education. Trouble with being interviewed is you can’t edit what you said –anyway here is what tumbled out of my mouth! musicteachermagazine.co.uk/content/qa/qa-…

You can’t claim to care about young people if you don‘t care about Music Education.

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This is interesting, and as Dr James Shea says, "we will all have our causations"!

With a hooray from me for dissing the "music is a universal language" nonsense! 👍

Well, at least funding is place for the financial year, but academic years are not the same! Anyway, good news - sort of!

A dozen teacher training providers that were deliberately crowbarred out of their status to make room for pop up new providers are now poised to re-enter the market. No-one in the sector was under any illusion about what was actually happening. schoolsweek.co.uk/12-teacher-tra…

Elizabeth MacGregor’s Musical Vulnerability is a fine ex of ethnography: strong conceptual/theoretical framework, rigorous research strategies, thick qualitative data, penetrating analysis, all deepening and extending theory and easily generalisable to reader’s own practice. 1/2

This makes for good reading....

Due out soon! New edition of Debates in Music Education edited by Chris Philpott and Gary Spruce. I was very pleased to work with them in contributing a couple of chapters. routledge.com/Debates-in-Mus…

New: Major project to investigate teacher effectiveness defends itself against possible concerns, including financial support from high-profile trading firm educationuncovered.co.uk/news/major-pro…

Exactly this ⬇ And musical learning demonstrated should be musical. As the oft-attributed saying goes "writing about music is like dancing about architecture". same goes for expecting other forms of knowledge transfer - in itself a problematic notion for the Neo-trads!

The memory of Electric Light Orchestra’s (ELO) keyboardist is being honoured with the opening of a new production suite at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire ). Richard Tandy, who died at the age of 76 in April 2024, also has a scholarship established in his name,

Human preparation vs job preparation.