International Conference on the Role and Place of Music in the Education of Youth and Adults; Music in education; 1955

The traitzing of the teacher

by competitive examination. This is organized independently of the

Ministry of Education and has no connexion with our own estab-

lishment.

3. Some of the larger provincial cities are following Paris’s ex-
   ample in paying for specialist teachers for their own schools but I
   believe that their music teaching staffs are not yet on an organized
   basis.

[ Tramluted from #he French J

THE MUSIC SPECIALIST

IN THE SCHOOLS OF ENGLAND

by

J. W. HORTON, Her Majesty’s Inspector for Schools in England

ELEMENTARY, INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED STAGES

As far as English schools are concerned, the term ‘music specialist’
covers four main categories of teachers (this does not necessarily apply
to Scotland and Wales).
First, the teacher who is a full-time member of the staff of the school
and who holds professional qualifications : a university degree in music,
or one or more recognized diplomas of our conservatories of music,
or both degree and diploma. Frequently these people have also received
pedagogic training, though this is not yet obligatory. Graduates in
music are employed chiefly in grammar schools and in the so-called
‘public’ and other schools independent of the State system-schools
which, it must be emphasized, have played a valuable part in the deve-
lopment of music as a factor in education. I should add that many
people who hold music degrees and diplomas are qualified to teach
other subjects also, and often do so in their schools. Some of them
become head teachers or pass into administrative posts in the educa-
tional world, and most organizers of music under local education
authorities are drawn from their ranks.