“It’s hard to continue to train talented and highly qualified professionals”
UK Music, the UK music and recording industry’s lobbying and crusader, warned of a music crisis in schools after the effects of the exams revealed an “alarming drop” in top-tier music scholars in England.
The number of academics taking A-level music has fallen from 5125 in 2019 to 5030 this year, a drop of 1.85%, according to the OFQUAL test regulator. Overall, A-level participants in England also fell 2.48% during the same period.
In the more than six years, the number of other people who read A-level music has fallen dramatically by 32%, from 7355 in 2014 to 5030 in 2020.
This is five times the minimum 6.3% in the total number of other people who read grades A during the same period.
This year’s decline continues to a sharp 5.8% drop in the number of pupils in England.
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UK Music described the fall as “a blow to efforts to continue generating our global diversity of professional musicians and poses a serious risk to the music industry skills group.”
The framework also said it was jeopardizing the good economic fortune of the music industry, which contributed 5.2 billion pounds to the UK economy in 2018, before the effect of coronavirus forced an industry-wide blockade in March 2020.
Commenting, UK music director of education and skills, Dr Oliver Morris, said, “This year’s Level A access figures show a slowdown in the decline in the number of academics taking A-level music.” But there has been an alarming 32% falling over the more than six years.
“It is difficult to continue to exercise and practice talented and highly professional professionals who in fact reflect our society and who continue to play in our world-renowned orchestras or teach the next generation of music stars.”
Morris also highlighted considerations about the questionable resolution of lowering the grades of many academics and the symptoms that schools in the poorest regions had been successful.
In England, 36% of entries had a lower-than-expected rating and 3% dropped two scores, with the effects of exams canceled due to the pandemic.
He added: “Shared effects reveal an inequality that catches our attention if we hope to target the game box and make sure that anyone, regardless of their origin, has the opportunity to expand to the most productive of their ability. Barriers to participation that stifle diversity in music threaten the flow of skills that is so important to the British music industry”.
Meanwhile, music industry figures are adding more volume to the crusade #LetTheMusicPlay to ask that the percentage of government arts investment protect the long-term live team, musicians and others who run the scenes.
Last month, more than 1,500 artists and industry figures amassed to call on the government to end “catastrophic damage” to music amid the COVID-19 pandemic at the launch of the #LetTheMusicPlay campaign.
After months of campaigning through enthusiasts and the music world, the UK government has revealed its goal of injecting an unprecedented $1.57 billion in cash to help the arts, culture and heritage industries that have an effect on coronavirus closures, offering independent cinemas for music theaters. , galleries, theatres and heritage sites with grants and emergency loans.