{"id":410,"date":"2010-10-24T09:17:42","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T09:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/?p=410"},"modified":"2010-10-24T09:17:42","modified_gmt":"2010-10-24T09:17:42","slug":"pot-luck-music-education-funding-ring-fenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/2010\/10\/24\/pot-luck-music-education-funding-ring-fenced\/","title":{"rendered":"Pot luck: music education funding ring-fenced"},"content":{"rendered":"

As reported over on The Guardian’s<\/em> classical music blog<\/a>, the culture minister Ed Vaizey reveals that there will continue to be a pot of money allocated to music education next year.<\/p>\n

The previous government had set up a Music Standards Fund, dedicated to music provision, which is due to end next year. Vaizey declares that a ring-fenced amount of funding will replace it.<\/p>\n

Music provision in primary education is a matter of hit and miss, dependent on local variables: it depends on whether the school values the arts generally and music in particular, whether it has a dedicated music specialist teaching a focused music curriculum; sometimes, it’s just a matter of whether a member of staff happens a) to have an interest or a facility in a particular musical discipline and b) to be sufficiently motivated to run such classess off their own bat.<\/p>\n

This creates widespread inequality in provision at primary level across schools, quite apart from the LEA-allocation model that existed under the Conservatives in the mid-80’s. Hopefully, music education and county music provision will continue to be funded under the Coalition, although with arts funding cuts announced earlier this week<\/a>, whether there will be musical opportunities for the current generation of primary school children when they come to the employment market as adults remains to be seen…<\/p>\n

Posted by Dan Harding<\/strong>, Deputy Director of Music at the University of Kent<\/a>. Click here<\/a> to read his music blog, \u2018Music Matters<\/a>.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As reported over on The Guardian’s classical music blog, the culture minister Ed Vaizey reveals that there will continue to be a pot of money allocated to music education next year. The previous government had set up a Music Standards Fund, dedicated to music provision, which is due to end next year. Vaizey declares that … Continue reading “Pot luck: music education funding ring-fenced”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":620,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1252],"tags":[1437],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}