I've just put some of this information on the end of a very long thread with a completely different starting point on the Parents' Forum and thought it deserved more obvious exposure!

Rhinegold Publishing http://www.rhinegold.co.uk/ produces a number of long established music-related magazines, e.g. Classical Music (nothing to do with Classic FM) and Music Teacher. In addition to the magazines they publish a number of annual supplements (free to magazine subscribers but also available to buy separately via their Web site), including one on Music Scholarships which was what I originally mentioned on the other thread.

They also publish a lot of very useful music reference material. It was a long time since I had looked at the Web site, and there's now quite a big series of reference and work books, in particular a number related specifically to the Edexcel exam syllabuses at GCSE, A1 and A2 levels. See http://www.rhinegold.co.uk/education/

More information about a couple of their publications:

Music Scholarships 2009 (£4.00 as a separate publication)
from the Web site: http://www.rhinegold.co.uk/supplements/

This annual supplement brings together a series of feature articles providing invaluable advice for parents, teachers and students. There are also dozens of ads from independent schools setting out their own scholarship policy for gifted musicians.

* Look at how government bursaries enable young people to benefit from tuition at the UK’s specialist music and dance schools, whatever your financial circumstances.

* Browse through snapshots of the lives of choristers at St George’s Chapel, Windsor and music students at Wells Cathedral School.

* Read about the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Barbirolli Foundation, which helps students to purchase quality instruments

* PLUS, we give you advice on the funding available for instrumental lessons at universities that don’t offer music degrees

British Music Education Yearbook 2009 (£39.00 - the sort of reference work I would expect to find in any serious music library)
From the Web site: http://www.rhinegold.co.uk/directories/

Rhinegold's comprehensive directory of music education institutions, organisations and services, providing information for music students, parents and teachers from primary school to adult and continuing education level.

Schools: specialist music schools (including state sector Music Colleges), plus information on music scholarships and musical activity at independent schools and extra-curricular music availability.

Universities: detailed comparative course information on music degrees at UK universities, including entry requirements, course content and exam methods, and availability of tuition. Plus music facilities and on-campus services.

Conservatoires: full details on practical music study at UK music colleges plus country-by-country listings for conservatoires across Europe.

Other courses: undergraduate and postgraduate teacher training courses, including in-service training; summer schools for performers of all ages; specialist courses such as Alexander Technique training, arts administration and recording/music technology.

PLUS: educational organisations, local authority music contacts and provision, useful suppliers, and individual performers and performing organisations with specially designed educational programmes. The yearbook also comes with a colour magazine section with informative articles on various aspects of music education and learning, from rehearsing chamber music to preparing for a university degree or choosing musical vacation courses for your children.

The educational revision guides are excellent and they cover all the boards, OCR and AQA as well as Edexcel. You'd be surprised at how many teachers use the book as their A level text book, despite the fact that it is not designed to be used in that way.

The Dictionary of Music in Sound is the best thing they publish and I would say it ought to mandatory for all wishing to go to university to study music. I strongly encourage parents to but it for all my A level students.

There was a thread I think in the teachers forum about the relative merits and otherwise of Music Teacher not so long ago.

Definately going to look into this further over the next few weeks.

The OCR music stuff could be interesting.