just with everyone talking about results, i've started wondering about uni's again.i want to become a music teacher, working in a classroom and was wondering about other people's opinions on courses. i would love to go to rsamd and glasgow (the course looks soo amazing!) but i don't have a chance in ###### of getting in!
so any music teachers/uni students out there, or if you know of anyone doing music education courses - what opinions do you have of your uni's/courses?
hoxie
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I think the best route is to do a standard music degree then look for a post graduate music teaching course. Combining music studies with teacher training (which both have to be done to register as a music teacher) is usually very stressful and time consuming.

UNIVERSITY OF WALES - BANGOR

GREAT MUSIC DEGREE
WID EDUCATION STUFF I THINK

www.bangor.ac.uk

check it out

OMG I'M GOING THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

looks good,

if i dnt go rncm i wanna g oder


its nearish chester i spose lol . lol. is it? lol. north wales? yeah i spose

bangors lovely place

Yeah I'm going there in September

Yeah in North Wales

cool

whtas better uni or conservatoire???

Well it depends. But I guess a conservatoire is for the most performance amazing people!

wot about composition???

You need to be careful when doing teaching qualifications whether you want to teach in England or Scotland. The teaching system is very different in Scotland as there is no national curriculum with different qualifications too; thus a teaching qualification obtained in Scotland does not necessarily qualify one to teach in England and vice versa. England and Wales are fine though. If you want to teach in England eventually then it's best to do your teaching qualifications either in England or in Wales; if you'd like to teach in Scotland do them there. I was also told by someone doing teacher training in Scotland (therefore completely unbiased!) that the Scottish qualification was preferred to the English one overseas as it's not so specialised to the National Curriculum.

Most English schoolteachers I know would agree I think... yet to meet a teacher who loves the NC!

thankyou!
i wasn't particularly planning on teaching overseas or in scotland (though i might in scotland!) but one of our music teachers is from scotland and shes brilliant!
the only other course i've read about in england was for bishop grosseteste college in lincoln, and it didnt really appeal ('would you like to learn the subject you need [teaching] without dropping the subject you love [music]?- not really what i wanted )
but i still have keele, derby (not going there - need to leave home ), durham, trinity college cambridge (heee...no chance) and if its better to do music and then teaching, which i think would be a little more relaxing, i can free up a lot more choices!
anyone else find the ucas website really unhelpful? or am i just not using it right? (it gives me 1 uni for music teaching compared to 22 that i got from another program)