Comments for Music http://www.jobs.ac.uk/blogs/music This blog covers a wide range of topics within Music including composition, contemporary music, music theatre, anthropology and sociology of music and culture, the history of music and much more. Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:06:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 Comment on I don’t stamp books! by Kelly Watkins http://www.jobs.ac.uk/blogs/music/2011/11/02/i-dont-stamp-books/#comment-645 Kelly Watkins Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:06:23 +0000 http://www.jobs.ac.uk/blogs/music/?p=54#comment-645 interesting read Karen, i have just started as a music librarian and i love it. interesting read Karen, i have just started as a music librarian and i love it.

]]> Comment on Web 2.0 : the perils of social media by Martyn Croston http://www.jobs.ac.uk/blogs/music/2011/08/12/web-2-0-the-perils-of-social-media/#comment-51 Martyn Croston Sun, 13 Nov 2011 22:09:11 +0000 http://www.jobs.ac.uk/blogs/music/?p=41#comment-51 Hi Karen, I can relate a lot to this! There are so many distractions with social media and the internet. During weekends, I wish I could resist the temptation to check social media sites and just relax! I suppose I do have the opportunity to play <a href="http://www.martyncroston.com" rel="nofollow">wedding party music</a> as a jazz pianist from time to time and have a break from teaching and the perils of social media! Hi Karen,

I can relate a lot to this! There are so many distractions with social media and the internet. During weekends, I wish I could resist the temptation to check social media sites and just relax! I suppose I do have the opportunity to play wedding party music as a jazz pianist from time to time and have a break from teaching and the perils of social media!

]]> Comment on To Post-doc or not to Post-doc: is this a question? by Martyn Croston http://www.jobs.ac.uk/blogs/music/2011/07/03/to-post-doc-or-not-to-post-doc-is-this-a-question/#comment-46 Martyn Croston Sat, 29 Oct 2011 20:48:20 +0000 http://www.jobs.ac.uk/blogs/music/?p=19#comment-46 The link for TES is <a href="http://www.tes.co.uk" rel="nofollow">www.tes.co.uk</a> The link for TES is http://www.tes.co.uk

]]> Comment on To Post-doc or not to Post-doc: is this a question? by Martyn Croston http://www.jobs.ac.uk/blogs/music/2011/07/03/to-post-doc-or-not-to-post-doc-is-this-a-question/#comment-45 Martyn Croston Sat, 29 Oct 2011 20:46:30 +0000 http://www.jobs.ac.uk/blogs/music/?p=19#comment-45 Paul, Sorry if I'm a bit late with my reply here but I might be able to offer some advice on your predicament. I was exactly in the same position a couple of years ago when I came back to the UK, after being in the US for a couple of years. Now although I left the US with an MMus, state schools in the UK were simply not interested because I didn't have a PGCE and I must have applied for about 50 jobs over the course of 4 months, which I didn't even get an interview for. However, I applied to an independent school. got an interview and got the job. It was literally my last chance before term started in September. I thought maybe I got lucky, but after working there for a while, I realised these type of schools really value 'experience' more so than a PGCE. Now I know you don't have a degree, but I know that there have been cases of teachers getting jobs at independent schools based on their 'experience' alone I can't guarantee this will work, but it may be worth a shot. Check the Times Education Supplement on a weekly basis. You never know! Paul,

Sorry if I’m a bit late with my reply here but I might be able to offer some advice on your predicament.
I was exactly in the same position a couple of years ago when I came back to the UK, after being in the US for a couple of years. Now although I left the US with an MMus, state schools in the UK were simply not interested because I didn’t have a PGCE and I must have applied for about 50 jobs over the course of 4 months, which I didn’t even get an interview for.

However, I applied to an independent school. got an interview and got the job. It was literally my last chance before term started in September. I thought maybe I got lucky, but after working there for a while, I realised these type of schools really value ‘experience’ more so than a PGCE. Now I know you don’t have a degree, but I know that there have been cases of teachers getting jobs at independent schools based on their ‘experience’ alone

I can’t guarantee this will work, but it may be worth a shot. Check the Times Education Supplement on a weekly basis. You never know!

]]> Comment on To Post-doc or not to Post-doc: is this a question? by Dr Sue Miller http://www.jobs.ac.uk/blogs/music/2011/07/03/to-post-doc-or-not-to-post-doc-is-this-a-question/#comment-15 Dr Sue Miller Sat, 23 Jul 2011 09:11:47 +0000 http://www.jobs.ac.uk/blogs/music/?p=19#comment-15 Hi Paul Might be worth getting some advice on how to convert your skills to have equivalence with a PGCE - maybe also there are short courses designed for skilled professionals like yourself that give you this qualification? I haven't looked into this but maybe someone here will know? I do feel that academia needs to realise that people develop skills outside their walls too and don't all (thankfully) follow the same path of undergrad, MA PhD in their twenties! All the best and don't give up hope Sue Hi Paul
Might be worth getting some advice on how to convert your skills to have equivalence with a PGCE – maybe also there are short courses designed for skilled professionals like yourself that give you this qualification? I haven’t looked into this but maybe someone here will know? I do feel that academia needs to realise that people develop skills outside their walls too and don’t all (thankfully) follow the same path of undergrad, MA PhD in their twenties!
All the best and don’t give up hope
Sue

]]> Comment on To Post-doc or not to Post-doc: is this a question? by Karen Mcaulay http://www.jobs.ac.uk/blogs/music/2011/07/03/to-post-doc-or-not-to-post-doc-is-this-a-question/#comment-12 Karen Mcaulay Fri, 22 Jul 2011 21:42:05 +0000 http://www.jobs.ac.uk/blogs/music/?p=19#comment-12 I can see your predicament, Paul. It really is a catch-22, isn't it? I'm not sure what to suggest; what do other readers think? (Actually, I wear my years lightly - thanks for thinking I must be young, but I'm not as young as you might think! Ah, me!) I can see your predicament, Paul. It really is a catch-22, isn’t it? I’m not sure what to suggest; what do other readers think?

(Actually, I wear my years lightly – thanks for thinking I must be young, but I’m not as young as you might think! Ah, me!)

]]> Comment on To Post-doc or not to Post-doc: is this a question? by Paul Mitchell-Davidson http://www.jobs.ac.uk/blogs/music/2011/07/03/to-post-doc-or-not-to-post-doc-is-this-a-question/#comment-4 Paul Mitchell-Davidson Sun, 10 Jul 2011 09:53:31 +0000 http://www.jobs.ac.uk/blogs/music/?p=19#comment-4 Hi Karen, I found your blog really interesting for the future. My position is opposite to yours; apart from being older, I am between two musical stools (chairs) so to speak. Although I have over forty years in composing, arranging, and playing - classical, choral, jazz, and educating, I can no longer find employment. This is because I cannot teach in a school - don't have the school requirements, nor will a university accept my applications, because I never had a degree, I am entirely self-taught. I did work at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts until the past couple of years, and through them was awarded a certification of Fellow of the Higher Education Authority - but this counts for nothing, without the teaching cert, without the degree, I am considered as nothing. Terrible, after all these years of being so productive in all levels, live, on recordings, on television and so on. Having left LIPA I proceeded to Portugal, there to rebuild my career, but unfortunately, after two premieres of two separate compositions, one in Barcelona, and One in Portugal, the work stopped. So I am stuck here, with my wife and friendly dog, trying to get work back in the UK, so that we can return home, and I can work and be productive, and pass on my immense knowledge. I do acknowledge and respect your learning, but at the other end of the scale, it is appalling that education authorities should deem me to be unemployable because I don't have the right bit of paper. Many best wishes for the future, Regards, Paul Mitchell-Davidson. Hi Karen, I found your blog really interesting for the future.
My position is opposite to yours; apart from being older, I am between two musical stools (chairs) so to speak. Although I have over forty years in composing, arranging, and playing – classical, choral, jazz, and educating, I can no longer find employment.
This is because I cannot teach in a school – don’t have the school requirements, nor will a university accept my applications, because I never had a degree, I am entirely self-taught.
I did work at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts until the past couple of years, and through them was awarded a certification of Fellow of the Higher Education Authority – but this counts for nothing, without the teaching cert, without the degree, I am considered as nothing. Terrible, after all these years of being so productive in all levels, live, on recordings, on television and so on.
Having left LIPA I proceeded to Portugal, there to rebuild my career, but unfortunately, after two premieres of two separate compositions, one in Barcelona, and One in Portugal, the work stopped. So I am stuck here, with my wife and friendly dog, trying to get work back in the UK, so that we can return home, and I can work and be productive, and pass on my immense knowledge.
I do acknowledge and respect your learning, but at the other end of the scale, it is appalling that education authorities should deem me to be unemployable because I don’t have the right bit of paper.
Many best wishes for the future,
Regards, Paul Mitchell-Davidson.

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