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May 2008
NZ high schools recognise the value of music education
NCEA results at Kings High School have improved by 25% - and this has been put down to making music an integral part of school life. Read more from an article in the Otago Daily TImes here.
Emma Featherstone, Director of Music at King's School in Auckland has won a Teaching Excellence Award for the extensive instrumental music programme that is available to all boys at the college. A podcast of her interview with Kim Hill on Saturday 31 May is available at this link.
METANZ will hold a second hui -
Wellington 27 October 2007
Click here for further details of how to register. (pdf 104kb)
The Crisis facing Music Education in Aotearoa New Zealand
For some time now we have been witnessing a serious decline in music education in this country. The achievements of a few ‘stars’ mask the fact that the fundamentals are collapsing around us. We are in serious trouble. Read more.
Music at Hogwarts
"Ah music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!
And now bedtime. Off you trot!"
Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (London: Bloomsbury, 1997 p95)
Music = Excellence for Geography Lecturer
Associate Professor Warrick Murray, a geography lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington accompanies all his lectures with appropriate live and recorded music. He is adamant that it helps both his lecturing and the learning process. He has just been awarded the NZ Geographical Society's President's Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Read more
NZ high schools recognise the value of music education
NCEA results at Kings High School have improved by 25% - and this has been put down to making music an integral part of school life. Read more from an article in the Otago Daily TImes here.
Emma Featherstone, Director of Music at King's School in Auckland has won a Teaching Excellence Award for the extensive instrumental music programme that is available to all boys at the college. A podcast of her interview with Kim Hill on Saturday 31 May is available at this link.
METANZ will hold a second hui -
Wellington 27 October 2007
Click here for further details of how to register. (pdf 104kb)
The Crisis facing Music Education in Aotearoa New Zealand
For some time now we have been witnessing a serious decline in music education in this country. The achievements of a few ‘stars’ mask the fact that the fundamentals are collapsing around us. We are in serious trouble. Read more.
Music at Hogwarts
"Ah music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!
And now bedtime. Off you trot!"
Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (London: Bloomsbury, 1997 p95)
Music = Excellence for Geography Lecturer
Associate Professor Warrick Murray, a geography lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington accompanies all his lectures with appropriate live and recorded music. He is adamant that it helps both his lecturing and the learning process. He has just been awarded the NZ Geographical Society's President's Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Read more