http://standpointmag.co.uk Welcome to the Standpoint magazine, the culture and politics monthly en /node/3695 <!--paging_filter--><p>Anyone got Sir Paul McCartney's phone number? Please tell him his country needs him. </p><p><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/reforms-and-redundancies-kill-off-music-in-state-schools-2169858.html">Music education in the UK's state schools is likely to be decimated by a fourfold attack </a>involving local council cutbacks on peripatetic music teachers, the withdrawal of £83.5m from central government earmarked for providing music teaching, the exclusion of music from the subjects eligible for the planned new Baccalaureate and the withdrawal of all government funding for arts degrees.</p><p><a href="/node/3695"><span>read more</span></a></p> /node/3695#comments Mon, 27 Dec 2010 13:10:40 +0000 Jessica Duchen 3695 at http://standpointmag.co.uk