The decimation of arts education has hit the music sector particularly hard. Deborah Annetts of the Independent Society of Musicia…

Labour leader sets out his plans for creative education, improving conditions for freelancers, and his hope to boost funding for a…

Creative Policy and Evidence Centre raises concerns over lack of focus on creativity within schools across the UK.

Almost all music teachers agree the government should consult them on the much-anticipated refreshed National Plan for Music Educa…

The summer exams must go, former education secretaries say, as a new commission reports the need for students to develop creativit…

DfE has resurrected the long-delayed plan as industry and researchers warn music A-levels could disappear from some regions by&nbs…

The proportion of school pupils taking music and drama at GCSE looks set to stabilise around 20% lower than in 2015, when a dramat…

Brexit fall-out is biting harder as musicians find it more difficult to secure European opportunities while uncertainty over the t…

AP looks at the promises set out in party manifestos. This week: Conservatives, Plaid Cymru, SNP and the Brexit Party.

AP looks at the promises set out in party manifestos. This week: Labour, Liberal Democrats and Green Party

The Shadow Culture Secretary said “a crude skills and salary approach to migration simply won’t work for the creative…

The former Education Secretary has previously expressed support for the EBacc and once claimed that studying the arts is not &ldqu…

The former Culture Minister says his party’s decision to “relentlessly” focus on STEM hurt music education &ndas…

Early figures suggest that the trend away from studying some arts subjects at GCSE may be bottoming out, but A level entries conti…

The move by the elite university group has led to renewed calls to reconsider the controversial EBacc performance measure.

A new report demands a “clear explanation” from DCMS and the Department for Education on why they have dismissed evide…

Music teachers should be treated as ‘workers’ and provided with holiday pay, national minimum wage and whistle-blower…

A student’s academic ability and the wealth of their parents are key indicators of the likelihood that they will get the cha…

Claims by the Onward thinktank that young people should be steered away from “low value” degrees because they leave ta…

The new qualification will be available from 2022/23, offering students who do not want to take A Levels a choice between pathways…

Digital Minister Margot James’s comments to a parliamentary inquiry are in marked contrast to previous comments from Governm…

A new parliamentary inquiry will report on the barriers to social mobility and identify practical action that can be taken by char…

Secondary schools have been subject to cutbacks in music education, but we shouldn't lose sight of the many recent successes a…