Here's Why UK Music Education is Going Down The Plughole

Have you ever wondered why it seems to be increasingly difficult to get a good musical education in Britain? Drawing from the Incorporated Society of Musicians, The Music Professor relays some painful truths about the state of music education today thanks mainly to shocking Tory mismanagement over the past decade, and the rapid dismantling of Britain's once proud and prestigious music education sector .

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[Jeremyak]

"What the hell is going on?"
Precisely, exactly what the hell is going on indeed. A thought that goes through my mind at least a dozen times a day in recent years, extremely troubling.

[thomasbourne]

The study of music sharpens the mind, allowing it to more readily absorb all kinds of information, not just musical information. Modern governments are shooting their nations in the foot by defunding music education.

[PabloGambaccini]

We are in a world that is desintegrating. People loosing ties between people, to history, to the land one walks on. Music is an important way of making ties.

[abagatelle]

Music is essential and all parents/grandparents must ensure their children learn to play an instrument and sing. A good starter ukulele can be bought from £24 and is a great way to get them started. If we as a country persist in ignoring the supreme value of music, we'll end up winning the Eurovision Song Contest!

[ThomasSmith-hnuo]

Very interesting video! Being from another country and looking to possibly study music as an undergraduate this video has introduced some interesting points to think about fro the future, thank you.

[janeclark]

Thank you for this. I'm quite shocked. I had no idea.

[therealwhitewyvern]

Another amazing video, I definitely saw this from my state school compared to the private school my school was paired with. There was barely any rooms designated for music let alone piano.

[TonyBittner-Collins]

Music has played a major role in human history. In fact, so important that it's considered one of the 7 liberal arts:

- Quadrivium: arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music. (scientific arts)

- Trivium: grammar, rhetoric, dialectic. (humanist arts)

[mclo]

As a 40-year-old music teacher from Hong Kong, I was taken aback by the state of music education in the UK today. Having been taught by educators trained in the UK throughout my secondary school and university years, I had a very different expectation of what music education would be like here. In Hong Kong, secondary school students commonly perform pieces like "Pomp and Circumstance" at graduation ceremonies, and it's not unusual for them to be familiar with works by Handel, Elgar, Holst, Vaughan Williams, and Britten. However, when I began teaching here, I was surprised to find that many Year 7 and 8 students had never experienced music as a formal subject in their school lives.

[SittaCarolinensis]

I grew up listening to BBC Radio 3 - now so dumbed down as to be indistinguishable from Classic FM. I remember particularly Anthony Hopkins "Talking about Music" and David Munro "Pied Piper"; a first exposure to music that has remained with me all my life.

[smike]

My choir practices in a CofE primary school and there isn't even a piano in the assembly room. Not even a lousy Danemann!

[SophieLeung-duwe]

In the state school I’m studying in, classical music is nowhere in the curriculum. I am deeply saddened by the fact that the students in this school and in general, youngsters in the uk have no access to classical music despite a lot of related content published on social media. I have tried to recommend my classmates to listen to classical music but out of the many I approached, only 1 or 2 are willing to give it a go. The fact that people see it as boring and judge me for liking this without knowing the facts is hurtful and foolish. It is deeply pathetic being that young people nowadays don’t experience the beauty of classical music but listen to pop music that is incredibly lacking. If you find pop music targeted at teenagers lacking and rubbish, you really ARE the lucky ones.
From a classical flautist
SL ❤

[espressonoob]

what is the piece in the background here? very lovely

[thomaslaubli]

The fact that music is no longer a core subject means that emotional intelligence suffers. This makes society dumber. Of course, there are even intelligence researchers who have not understood the importance of "EQ". But if one takes the original meaning of Salovey/Mayer, EI is not synonymous with suffering emotions, but actively shaping them. Music, if not misused for entertainment, also helps to distance oneself from one's own emotions, to evaluate them and to put oneself into the shoes of others. This is the intelligence in "EI". The political dimension is that without this critical ability one is more susceptible to drive satisfaction and foreign influence, which of course can only be good for the conservatives and neoliberals. Stupid people can be better controlled and manipulated.