Bacc for the Future

We encourage all of our supporters to write to your local MP candidates and tell them that a creative education matters to the UK's future prosperity. Use our template letter or use it to inspire your own letter: baccforthefuture.com/write-to-your-…

🚨✒️Today, we’ve sent our open letter to Kemi Badenoch MP, Minister for Women and Equalities. It calls for changes to legislation that would make music workplaces safer: ism.org/news/over-700-… (1/4)

🚨🚨OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: We’re incredibly excited to announce that from today the ISM has changed its name. We are now the Independent Society of Musicians. The ISM also has a new look, including a brilliantly redesigned Music Journal. 1/3 👇

🚨🚨NEW: The ISM has today launched an important new ‘discrimination in the music sector’ survey. The survey is open to everyone working in the music sector, is anonymous and will take roughly 10 minutes to complete. 1/2

🚨 NEW: This morning we share our report 'Music: A Subject in Peril?' 500+ music teachers in England shared their experiences and we have found: 💰 Music is underfunded 😞 Inequality at the heart of music education ⏳ Accountability measures like Progess 8 need urgent reform 1/2

Implied hierarchy of subjects ‘not intended’: Bauckham responds to @ISM_music letter #Echobox=1642513444-1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">musicteachermagazine.co.uk/news/article/i…

'The benefits that musical education and participation bring to children and young people are in my view profound.' Ian Bauckham responds to @DeborahAnnetts' letter after he suggested 'suspending' music in schools. @ISM_music #Echobox=1642521139" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">musicteachermagazine.co.uk/news/article/i…

🤔 Are you disapointed by Ian Bauckhams suggestion that music education could be suspended? Take action with the ISM by writing to Ofqual and asking for a retraction. 💪 All the details and draft text are available below. loom.ly/G9Kt8Uc

The ISM has produced a template email to write to Ofqual's chief regulator in response to Ian Baukham's comments on temporarily suspending music education⬇️

🚨 Following the response from members and the wider music education community to Ofqual Chair Ian Bauckham's suggestion that music education be suspended and teachers deployed, we've produced a template email you can send to Ofqual. Details are here: loom.ly/G9Kt8Uc

’Music is part of the national curriculum and as such it is required to be taught in our schools’ - Deborah Annetts, CEO @ISM_music Fears amidst suggestions that music classes could be scrapped in English schools to accommodate Covid-related illnesses: bit.ly/3t2IWOU

‘It reinforces the already strong impression that there is a hierarchy of subjects in our schools in which creative arts are undervalued,’ writes @DeborahAnnetts in a strongly-worded letter to @ofqual chair. #Echobox=1641488075" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">musicteachermagazine.co.uk/news/article/o…

Read @DeborahAnnetts letter in @thetimes regarding the Chair of Ofqual's suggestion that schools suspend music. As Deborah says, music is part of the national curriculum, integral to the creative pipeline and should not be treated as 'nice to have'. loom.ly/5xP7WhE

Exclusive: ‘To suspend music lessons, even temporarily, would cause even more damage to the subject,’ writes @DeborahAnnetts in a letter to senior education figures, following comments about pausing music teaching tes.com/magazine/news/…

🚨 NEW: The ISM has now written the Chair of @Ofqual about his proposal to suspend music education and redeploy music teachers. Our letter asks him to retract his comments and highlights the issues with his suggestion. Read more in @tes: loom.ly/Lo6x4q0

Please read ISM letter in @thetimes today on Chair of Ofqual's suggestion that music teachers should be redeployed in schools to cover teacher shortages. Bizarre proposal which must be retracted. Please write to Ofqual and help us make this happen. @ISM_music @Bacc4theFuture

A good letters page to read in @thetimes today. Good to see @DeborahAnnetts and others standing up for music education.

In closing remarks @DeborahAnnetts says music teachers 'are not just fluff, you are incredibly important, you are the backbone of music in this country.' A great message to bring #UKMusicEd to a close.

@DeborahAnnetts 'It is music teachers that matter so much, and going forward will be focussing even more on teachers' @DeborahAnnetts #UKMusic @Bacc4theFuture

Watch the top @ISM_music legal team right now setting out what makes an employee or a worker. Essential viewing for all music teachers #UKmusiced @Bacc4theFuture

Kadiatu asked big questions around ideology, the EBacc and the damage it has caused, funding and creative intelligence. So much wisdom and insight. Make her Secretary of State for Education #UKMusicEd @ISM_music @Bacc4theFuture