Their own statistics tell a different story. The numbers for 2016/2017, just released by Arts Council England (ACE) on the performance of music education hubs (MEH) show an alarming drop in the number of children achieving higher standards on an instrument.
Music education hubs seem to be getting more children to achieve foundation or entry level, but intermediary and advanced levels of achievement have declined 4.5% and over 11% in just one year.
This is hardly surprising, as it is impossible to learn any instrument to an intermediate or advanced level with just one to three terms of whole class ensemble teaching, which is all the MEHs have to provide for free, and many parents will be unable to pay beyond that free offer.
Could music hubs have been created in the first place back in 2012 to address this decline??
