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Music education in the infant school -- research highlights huge inequalities

(26/10/2011)

In the past it seemed that every primary school had one or two teachers who could bash out an assembly hymn on an old upright piano. Today there are no such certainties. Some primaries have several music specialists and many instruments. Others do not have a single musician on the staff and some no longer have even a slightly out-of-tune piano. The huge gulf between music education’s ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’ – even within the state sector -- has been highlighted by a new report from the Ins... [more]

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