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Australia downgrades national school of music

Australia downgrades national school of music

The Times higher education supplement reports that Australia’s National University has gutted the core of National School of Music to ‘programme’ rather than academic pursuit.

ANU’s performance, composition and theory teaching will give way to ‘music and well-being’.

Seven teaching jobs will be scrapped.

ANU has a chequered history of limited accomplishment over six decades, but this looks like curtains.

Read on here.

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