Many of us in the drama and theatre education sector have, over many decades, watched with a degree of envy the gains made by music educators. A quick review of the landscape reveals the progress they have made:
I'm not suggesting that the music sector isn't facing challenges. Back in 2014 the Paul Hamlyn Foundation's Inspiring Music For All report suggested that despite the focused interventions of the last decade and considerable levels of government and charitable investment the quality and reach of primary and secondary school based music education is still unacceptably variable and inconsistent and identified lack of teacher confidence, poor spaces and resources and teaching strategies over-weighted to verbal and written analysis as key factors.
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