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MUSIC EDUCATION NEWS FROM ACROSS AUSTRALIA
MUSIC EDUCATION NEWS FROM ACROSS AUSTRALIA
ASME is the key music education professional association in Australia and represents music educators in all sectors. We advocate for all individuals and communities to have access to ongoing and quality music education.
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‘It’s not a hobby’: Lime Cordiale sounds alarm over proposed major changes to NSW music education
Music teachers call for draft changes to senior courses in NSW to be scrapped
The proposed changes to the 11-12 Music syllabus will significantly impact classrooms across NSW
Key things to be aware of with the proposed new curriculum for Music and Music in NSW:
Year 12 students enrolled in Music 1 can presently choose electives for study and examination from the topics of composition, musicology and performance, and they also complete a written aural skills paper and core performance practical exam.
NESA’s proposed changes completely remove the electives, with students instead doing two performances and a written aural examination.
The written aural examination is nearly doubled in time and worth 50 marks as opposed to the current 30.
Stand with ASME NSW and Drama NSW to demand a transparent, consultative review process for the Music and Drama syllabuses. If you know someone who lives in NSW, please ask them to sign the petition to NSW Parliment today: https://bit.ly/4fOeCwI
For the latest updates on this topic, please head to the ASME NSW Facebook Page or the NSW ASME page.
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Since day one of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), music therapy has been a funded therapeutic support.
Recently, the Australian Music Therapy Association (AMTA) discovered that the NDIS will remove music therapy from the Capacity Building – Improved Daily Living category.
No-one in the music therapy community was consulted about this decision.
Neither the NDIA nor the Department of Social Services has provided a reason for the decision other than a review was carried out that revised what was a valid form of therapy - and according to this review, music therapy is excluded from the inclusion criteria.
Please see the statement from the Australian Music Therapy Association’s (AMTA) website.
"AMTA and its members hold grave concerns for NDIS participants who receive music therapy under this category. We fear that the benefits they experience, and the goals they are working to achieve, will be jeopardised. We are also deeply concerned that participants’ and registered providers’ trust in the NDIS will be undermined.
We make this statement on their behalf and on behalf of the 950 registered music therapists in Australia, many of whom are also NDIS registered providers."
For current information and to support the AMTA’s campaign please click here.
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