Ed Sheeran and a host of industry names have successfully helped influence the UK Government to introduce the first major update to the music curriculum in England in more than ten years, following Sheeran’s open letter to the Prime Minister in March this year.

Today, the government has announced new measures in their curriculum review, with one of those reflecting some of the asks raised in Sheeran’s letter: the removal of the EBacc measure to encourage students to study a greater breadth of GCSE subjects including music and the arts, and the diversifying of genres in the music curriculum.

Today’s news was met with a response from the Prime Minister, who called Ed’s letter “powerful”, and stated: “your open letter sent a powerful message: creativity matters.”

Secretary of State for

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