The new report by Dr Adam Whittaker and professor Martin Fautley warns that if the current rate of decline continues in a linear manner, A Level Music is likely to have zero entries by 2033.
Findings, which were revealed in an MT article pre-publication, suggest that the inequality between state and independent schools is widening due to cuts to local and central government funding in recent years.
The research calls for an urgent intervention from government and funding measures to be put in place. Whittaker and Fautley write in MT that ‘keeping A Level alive is allowing young musicians to choose a musical qualification that may be right for them’.
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