I went to Swindon today. It’s not the first time it’s happened, but it doesn’t happen often. I was invited to give a guest lecture to two mixed groups of Music Technology and Media Studies A-level students. The teacher had been careful to prep me with the curriculum and the kinds of questions the students [...]
Categories: Education
I’ve been running the MA in Music Industries (as well as the MA in Music Radio) this year at Birmingham City University. We had our first intake in February, and things really kicked in for the September intake. From September we’ve also been offering the course as a distance learning programme, which is great because [...]
Categories: Education,University
Tagged: Education, music business
Mark Roach, John Peel and me – photo by Paul Kennedy Back when I was still a radio lecturer in Auckland, we had news that John Peel was coming to town, and so I made efforts to try and get him to come in and give a guest lecture to my third-year class. To my [...]
Categories: Music
The advantage of having actually learned things out of books Sometimes Jake comes home from school and wants to talk about what he’s been learning. Sometimes I get the feeling that he enjoys knowing more stuff about some things than I do, and he likes the opportunity to test that theory. One of his subjects [...]
Tagged: Education, Philosophy, Photo
