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27th May 2022

The recently published National Plan for Music Education in Wales sets out the Welsh government’s vision and support plan for… Continue reading The National Plan for Music Education (Wales)

1st April 2022

While Rose Ayling-Ellis & Giovanni Pernice proved that you can have dancing without sound, the dramatic contrast achieved in their… Continue reading Time for a triple-threat curriculum?

15th February 2022

The writing has been on the wall for a while. The publication of the Model Music Curriculum, the subsequent shoehorning… Continue reading Where is music education going?

2nd February 2022

One of the questions that I get asked most often is what ‘standard’ should pupils be at music when they… Continue reading Standards in Primary Music

20th January 2022

The National Plan for Music Education is being ‘refreshed’ and we are led to believe we may see it at… Continue reading Why training must be at the heart of the new NPME

3rd December 2021

Currently, most of music education discourse is related in some way to the idea of progression. It might be semantic… Continue reading Progression in the Expressive Arts

12th November 2021

Most of us would agree that music means something to us, but does music have objective ‘meaning’ of its own?… Continue reading Music and Meaning

24th September 2021

Dr Elizabeth Stafford was delighted to be invited to give the Keynote Speech at the Hackney Music Education Conference on… Continue reading Keynote Speech: Hackney Music Network

17th June 2021

The devolved nations of the UK each have their own music curricula, which have to be interpreted and taught by… Continue reading The Knowledge: Musical Devices