The Royal College of Music will celebrate its inaugural Women in Music at the RCM event on Tuesday 8 March 2016. Coinciding with International Women’s Day, the RCM’s diverse programme of events will celebrate the finest female exponents from the world of classical music. Exceptional female musicians are firmly rooted in the RCM’s history and today, women comprise… Read full story
The recent collaboration of Rambert and Bach to Baby aimed to bring dance and music together. They certainly succeeded. Finding high quality events for small children to participate in can be quite difficult. Added to the fact that this audience is probably a tricky one to satisfy (baby to aged 5 and their adult carers)… Read full story
‘Classical 100’, a free online resource bringing classical music to primary schools has been launched today by The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM). Schools can gain full, unlimited free access to Classical 100 by registering at www.abrsm.org/classical100 Complementing existing teaching resources, Classical 100 has been developed by ABRSM in partnership with… Read full story
The Exam Results Helpline remains open to provide advice and support to students (and their parents) as they pick up GCSE results. Careers advisers will be answering calls from 9am on tomorrow (20th). John Carberry, a careers adviser who has worked for the service for over 25 years said: “A lot of the young people… Read full story
The Exam Results Helpline is preparing to open on A Level results day next Thursday and will remain open every day until Monday 24th August Funded by the Department for Education, the helpline will be ready to help students who have received unexpected exam results and want to discuss their options. Over 40 expert careers… Read full story
Five new key programmes have been created by the 30% Club’s Technology Working Group. Led by Melissa Di Donato, VP EMEA and APAC at Salesforce, the initiatives are intended to achieve better gender balance at all levels of organisations. The Technology Working Group of the 30% Club works to increase female representation on the boards… Read full story
One of the UK’s leading business women, Kate Swann, has been appointed as the new Chancellor of the University of Bradford. Kate an ex-graduate of the university was CEO of the SSP group in September 2013, following ten years as CEO of WH Smith. Prior to this she was Managing Director of Argos having joined… Read full story
The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain (NYO), has announced the creation of a new NYO Inspire Orchestra. The first NYO Inspire Orchestra will come together in Manchester at the end of June before embarking on a tour to secondary schools in the north-west of England between 2 and 6 July 2015. The NYO are… Read full story
BBC Music’s classical music initiative Ten Pieces will be celebrated in two BBC Proms concerts at the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 July 2015. In 2014, the BBC announced ten pieces of classical music designed to act as a gateway to children to learn more about classical music and inspire them… Read full story
The 30% Club’s new collaboration with Speakers for Schools has launched an “Equality Across the Board” talk series, to encourage the ambitions and talent of young girls as the next generation of female leaders as they move from school and beyond. The series will begin with a fortnight of talks from top business leaders. So… Read full story