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New report highlights importance of helping young people access spaces to make music | Federation of Music Services (FMS) | FMS represents and supports 99% of all Music Services across England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Channel Isles. The benefits of a classical education at Highbury Grove. In the 1990s standards fell, and by the turn-of-the-century, thanks to an undercover TV reporter posing as a supply teacher, the school, by now mixed, became a byword for failure. “Ten years ago, it was appalling,” says Brown candidly. “And that wasn’t just what Ofsted said, it was what the local community felt. Parents would do anything rather than allow their children to come here.” That was when the fightback began.

As part of her widely acclaimed efforts to turn this failing school around – which included rehousing it in new premises – the head teacher, Truda White, had an idea. The 1,300 pupils at the school speak 50 different languages as their mother tongue. Music, she felt, could act as a common language to unite them and mould them into one community. And she took that one stage further. Music is at the heart of the curriculum. It is not, he stresses, that this is some prissy conservatory from which all contemporary sounds are banished as vulgar. Why Music is Important: The Economic Answer - The Huffington Post. The London School of Economics is no slouch when it comes to understanding the real world in all its fiscal glory (or calamity). Several of its researchers have been working with three of the top music schools in London--the Royal Academy, the Royal College, and the Guildhall in producing an economic impact report on the three schools, their work, influence, and general financial contribution.

It makes good reading and provides a forceful argument for current and future government investment in the three schools (now at £12.6 million or $19.1 million). So, what are the study's conclusions? Aside from the societal value of the arts as food for the soul, the LSE has found that the graduates of the three schools are providing a major return on investment through their work in television, recording studios, the major West End musicals, as well as the major orchestras and opera houses.

Added together, all this activity comes to £700 million or $1.06 billion of value added in 2010 alone. Watch 32 discordant metronomes achieve synchrony in a matter of minutes.

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Transition. Statutory Induction for Newly Qualified Teachers (NQTs) in England. This statutory guidance is for: headteachers school staff local authorities governing bodies It applies to: maintained schools academies and free schools pupil referral units independent schools sixth-form colleges further education colleges The guidance covers settings which: are required to offer induction to their newly qualified teachers choose to offer induction to their newly qualified teachers This guidance relates to The Education (Induction Arrangements for School Teachers) (England) Regulations 2012.

This updates and replaces the statutory guidance which accompanied the Education (Induction Arrangements for School Teachers) (England) Regulations 2008. The assessment forms which schools should use to carry out their statutory induction of newly qualified teachers are also available from this website.

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Music - Home. British Association for Music Therapy :: BAMT Information leaflets. BTEC. National Plan For Music. Improvisation.