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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Richard Adams and Nadia Khomami

Ed Sheeran takes partial credit for move to overhaul music teaching in England

Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran said that without the encouragement he received from his music teacher he would not have become a musician. Photograph: Rachid Bellak/NMA2025/Sipa/Shutterstock

Ed Sheeran has taken partial credit for the government’s move to overhaul the teaching of music in England’s state schools shortly after being mentioned by the education secretary in parliament.

The Department for Education (DfE) said it wanted to broaden the appeal of music education “to give every child a strong start in the subject” and boost the creative subjects taken at GCSE as part of its wider changes to England’s national curriculum.

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