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NPME House of Lords debate: raising questions for music educators

Dr Adam Whittaker and Dr Anthony Anderson from the Birmingham Music Education Research Group at Birmingham City University outline lessons from the debate.
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You have probably heard about the new National Plan for Music Education (NPME) – The Power of Music to Change Lives (DfE, 2022). It's been over 10 years since its predecessor first appeared – The Importance of Music (DfE, 2011), so the new NPME looks set to be an important document in music education for some time to come. Since its publication in June 2022, the new NPME has been vigorously debated and discussed in a wide variety of spaces, including at music conferences, in social media threads, and within staffrooms up and down the country. But did you know that it has also been debated in the House of Lords?

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