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Issue 6.09

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Music In Schools

This new Ofsted report examining music teaching has found wide differences in the quality and quantity of music education in schools across England. In some lessons, teachers do not play or sing a single note, and inspectors found girls were twice as likely as boys to take part in extra-curricular music in primary schools. The study was based on evidence from inspections of 90 primary and 90 secondary schools from 2008 to 2011. Leadership Briefing Issue 6.09 (69)

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Cultural Education In England

This independent review of Cultural Education in England written by Darren Henley for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Department for Education offers a number of recommendations to make England's cultural education "the envy of the world”. His proposals cover all areas of cultural education and are intended to ensure that all children leave school as "well-rounded individuals with a knowledge of the world, past and present, around them". Leadership Briefing Issue 6.09 (69)

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How Choice Has Declined In Higher Education

The number of full-time undergraduate courses on offer at UK universities has fallen by more than a quarter (27%) since 2006, according to a report by the University and College Union. The research reveals the number of degree courses on offer at British universities has been slashed by more than a quarter in the past six years, with almost 20,000 fewer full-time undergraduate courses available now than there were in 2006. Among the cuts are plans to slash STEM subjects – science, technology, engineering and maths – by 14.6 per cent, the very subjects the government pledged to protect this year. Leadership Briefing Issue 6.09 (69)

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What Kids Are Reading 2012

This new report, written by Professor Keith Topping, Professor of Educational and Social Research, School of Education, University of Dundee and published by Renaissance Learning, shows that the difference in abilities between girls’ and boys’ reading appears to be closing. The report looks at the reading habits of 210,000 British schoolchildren. Although in some academic years girls are continuing to outperform boys, on balance across all years (1 – 11), the reading gender divide is closing. Leadership Briefing Issue 6.09 (69)

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How Schools Are Responding To New Responsibilities For Careers Guidance

Many schools in England are uncertain how to manage their new duties for career guidance and plug the gap left by local authority cuts, according to this survey by the Institute of Career Guidance. Nearly one in ten are planning to provide no career guidance at all, or simply refer pupils to websites and other online information sources. And one in three are still undecided about what to do. Leadership Briefing Issue 6.09 (69)

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