Music education in UK schools devastated by pandemic, survey finds

By ITS Education Asia

Music education in schools is facing an “unprecedented crisis” as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, with singing, instrumental lessons, extracurricular activities and end-of-term concerts all badly hit, a new report covered by The Guardian says.

More than two-thirds (68%) of primary school teachers and more than a third (39%) of secondary school teachers reported a reduction in music provision as a direct result of the pandemic in a survey carried out by the ISM at the beginning of this academic year.

Almost one in 10 primary and secondary schools is not teaching music as part of the curriculum at all. Some lessons “contained no practical music-making”, the report says.

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