Music: Education

(asked on 6th June 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (1) music teachers, (2) GCSE music students, (3) A-level music students, and (4) degree level music students, there were in each of the last five years; and how many universities have ceased to offer music as a degree.


Answered by
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Lord Agnew of Oulton
This question was answered on 20th June 2019

The School Workforce Census contains the majority of information about teacher numbers and the subjects taught by teachers in state funded secondary schools. Information up to 2017 has been provided in table 1, attached. Updated information is due to be published on 27 June 2019.

Pupil entries into GCSE music are published each year and have been provided in table 2, attached. These figures are also available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-gcses-key-stage-4.

Entries into A level music have been provided in table 3, attached. These figures are also available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/a-level-and-other-16-to-18-results-2017-to-2018-revised.

The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects and publishes data on students enrolled in higher education. Information on students entering first degrees in music at English higher education institutions has been provided in table 4, attached.

The information requested is not held centrally about the number of higher education institutions that have ceased to offer music as a degree. However, the number of institutions who reported one or more entrants to first degrees in music subjects to HESA in the latest five years available has been provided in table 5, attached.

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