For many years the ISM has been highlighting the impact of accountability measures on music and other creative subjects in our schools.
Both the EBacc and Progress 8 have seen the ‘core’ subjects of English, maths, the sciences, a humanities subject and a language take a greater priority in classrooms. Since 2010 we have called on the government to reconsider the exclusion of creativity from the EBacc. This took the form of the long-running #BaccfortheFuture campaign, with which many readers will be familiar.
Since the EBacc was introduced in 2010 there has been a 27 per cent fall in entries at GCSE Music, a 40 per cent drop across creative subjects and a 23 per cent fall in specialist arts teachers. Despite the outstanding work that music teachers do in bringing the value of music education to children, too often they are fighting a losing battle.
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