More Destructive Government Action on Music Education

The latest ITT funding decision by Michael Gove will have a very negative effect on Music and Art Education in this country. The numbers of students who will be trained as music teachers will be cut by a third for next year and their bursary will also be removed. This is on top of the fact that music will not be in the spurious/fake English Baccalaureate being introduced by Gove. The results of both these misguided policies is that there will be a reduction in music teachers in UK schools, and also a reduction in pupils taking music. Clearly this is a policy that should be resisted unless we want our children to have purely utilitarian education. Of course in the public schools that our cabinet attended, music will still be valued and taught.