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Bristol to have first of new music academies
by Margaret Holness Education Correspondent
THE GOVERNMENT has given Bristol Cathedral School the go-ahead to join the maintained sector. It will become a C of E specialist music academy in September. The school will continue to provide the cathedral choir, selecting ten per cent of pupils on musical ability. The remaining places will be open, a spokesman said. The school will also offer musical support to other maintained schools. More than 20 other Anglican cathedrals are considering similar schemes, first mooted by Frank Field MP, chairman of the Cathedral Fabric Commission for England. Representatives of Roman Catholic cathedrals, who are considering a similar scheme, met the Schools Minister, Lord Adonis, this week. The initiative was criticised this week by Keith Porteous Wood of the National Secular Society (NSS), who said that cathedral academies would not benefit children from deprived areas. The Dean of Southwark, the Very Revd Colin Slee, spokesman for the Association of English Cathedrals, rejected the criticism. “We are not trying to piggyback specialised small school music speciality on a major government initiative. We all have a musical interest, but not exclusively so. We are also deeply committed to social integration in our cities so we are talking about large numbers of pupils and a range of subject specialisms.”www.bristolcathedral.bristol.sch.uk
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