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Government misses music teacher recruitment target for 2022/23

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Not enough music teachers are being trained for the country’s future needs, according to new Initial Teacher Training (ITT) data from the Department for Education. 

64 per cent of the government’s target was met for 2022-23, representing a drop from 71 percent in 2021. That translates into 301 of a hoped-for 470 recruits entering teacher training in music this year. Last year, there were 386 trainees, falling short of the target of 540.

 ‘These figures are very disappointing and as we have previously warned, our fantastic music education workforce will need to grow in order to deliver the ambitions of the refreshed National Plan for Music Education,' says Deborah Annetts, chief executive of the Independent Society for Musicians (ISM).

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