Pressure is mounting to save three jobs from a financially under-performing university music programme as supporters prepare to protest. AdvertisementSpeaker Jamie Strange, the Hamilton East Labour candidate and music teacher at Berkley Intermediate School, said a large group of people in the Waikato and Bay of Plenty were very worried the job cuts could spell the end of the music school. But a former Vice-Chancellor of Waikato University, Bryan Gould, told the Herald that although it was more expensive to teach music, there was a huge benefit to the university to do so. Should we value music? For me as a music teacher the students I'm teaching aged 11, 12, 13, music brings creativity, confidence, co-operation.

Source: New Zealand Herald June 25, 2017 06:36 UTC