The Group welcomes the Improvement Service’s offer to create, maintain and provide a standard benchmarking framework to capture in a standard form data on charging policy, current charges, participation and drop-out rates for instrumental music services across Scotland and recommends that, once established, this data should be monitored continuously by service providers.
15 The Group recommends that the current Heads of Instrumental Teaching Scotland (HITS) guidance – ‘Guidelines For Instrumental Teaching In Scottish Schools - 2003’ be updated in partnership with Scottish Government; Education Scotland; COSLA; and the EIS, to bring it in line with Curriculum for Excellence.
16 The Group applauds:- a) the offer by ADES to sponsor a National Conference on Music Education, including the distinctive part played by Instrumental Music to promote a better understanding of the benefits to young people and society arising from Instrumental Music tuition, and b) the intention by Education Scotland to ensure that a statement commenting on the quality of Instrumental music tuition will be added to the list of obligatory statements in the Report of Inspection Findings for every school from September 2013.
17 The Group recommends that the Scottish Government sets up an Instrumental Music Implementation Group (IMIG) to oversee the strategic progression of these recommendations, support new...