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Music Industry + Music Education Conference to return to Manchester

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Music Education • 1 min read

Music Industry + Music Education Conference to return to Manchester

CMU’s Pathways Into Music Foundation presents an annual conference bringing together music industry and music education. This year’s edition will put the spotlight on music career resources; accreditation in music education and the industry; and how music companies can best support future talent…

CMU • 04 Sep 2025

Ed Sheeran wants £250 million from Keir Starmer to pay for better music education

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Ed Sheeran • 3 min read

Ed Sheeran wants £250 million from Keir Starmer to pay for better music education

Having set up his own foundation to support education initiatives, Ed Sheeran is now calling on Keir Starmer to commit to a £250 million package to support music education in schools and beyond. That is required, he says, to “repair decades” of governments “dismantling” support for young musicians…

Chris Cooke • 24 Mar 2025

Ed Sheeran launches foundation supporting music education

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Ed Sheeran • 1 min read

Ed Sheeran launches foundation supporting music education

Ed Sheeran last week visited talent development projects in Cardiff, Coventry, Edinburgh and Belfast to formally launch a new foundation that will support music education. The foundation aims to ensure more young people have access to instruments, performance opportunities and industry pathways…

Chris Cooke • 13 Jan 2025

Youth Music calls on industry and education to collaborate to “close the gap from learning to earning”

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Youth Music • 2 min read

Youth Music calls on industry and education to collaborate to “close the gap from learning to earning”

A new report from Youth Music makes four recommendations for how the music industry can collaborate with music education to better support its future workforce. It calls for more joined-up thinking, career skills in the curriculum, funding for non-formal pathways and safer working cultures…

Chris Cooke • 03 Dec 2024

Liberal Democrats pass “Fair Deal For Musicians” conference motion

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Liberal Democrats • 3 min read

Liberal Democrats pass “Fair Deal For Musicians” conference motion

The UK’s Liberal Democrats have passed a motion at their annual conference calling for greater support for the music sector, including ticketing reform, music education funding, planning policy around venues - and says the government must introduce a ticket levy to support grassroots live sector…

Sam Taylor • 20 Sep 2024

Pathways Into Music and Un-Convention bring together music educators and music industry for new conference this autumn

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Music Education • 1 min read

Pathways Into Music and Un-Convention bring together music educators and music industry for new conference this autumn

CMU’s Pathways Into Music Foundation runs various programmes connecting music industry and music education. This November it is teaming up with Un-Convention to present a Music Industry + Music Education Conference in Manchester, bringing together everyone involved in supporting new music talent…

CMU • 11 Sep 2024

Government should invest in long-term strategy to support young music creators, says Youth Music

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Youth Music • 2 min read

Government should invest in long-term strategy to support young music creators, says Youth Music

Youth Music has published the results of a new survey that concludes that “young people’s relationship with music is changing”. The charity calls on government to invest in a new strategy to support young music creators and on the industry to remove barriers for those pursuing a music career…

Chris Cooke • 10 Jul 2024

Music organisations back demand for politicians to end the Arts Apocalypse in UK schools

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Music organisations back demand for politicians to end the Arts Apocalypse in UK schools

The Musicians’ Union, Black Lives In Music and Music For Youth are among fourteen organisations calling on UK politicians to address the crisis facing arts education in schools. They say that a downgrading of arts subjects and funding cuts across the board have created an ‘Arts Apocalypse’…

Chris Cooke • 13 May 2024

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University Of Kent • 4 min read

University Of Kent axes music courses

The music industry has responded to the news that the University Of Kent is closing its music department. UK Music says it hopes that, as a General Election approaches, politicians will “reflect on the policy decisions” that have led to music courses being axed at this and other universities…

Chris Cooke & Sam Taylor • 22 Mar 2024