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A Level Music: going, going, gone?

Concerned by the steady decline in A Level Music students and what that might mean for the future of music education, Dr Adam Whittaker from Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and professor Martin Fautley from Birmingham City University unpick the data.
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The challenging picture for music education in schools has been reported widely and featured in many articles in this magazine. We only have to look at the various ‘State of the Nation’ reports over the last few years to get a general picture. The pandemic presents even further challenges, the impacts of which we don't yet fully understand. Over the last few years, we at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and Birmingham City University have been looking closely at publicly available A Level Music data, alongside other national datasets in music education, and have noticed some concerning trends that hold relevance to all of us.

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