Music has been excluded from the Department for Education’s package of bursaries for trainee teachers for the third year running.
The DfE’s ‘generous’ package of bursaries - amounting to £181m - was announced yesterday (11 October 2022), with some ‘high priority subjects’ seeing increases in financial incentives.
£52m has been added to the teacher trainee bursary scheme for courses starting in 2023, but music and other arts subjects have not benefitted from the injection of funds.
The Independent Society of Musicians (ISM) - recently renamed from Incorporated Society of Musicians - has called on the government to reinstate the music bursary ‘to encourage more music students into the teaching profession’.
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