Playing to the gold standard

Article Abstract:

Good instruments can aid performance but are very expensive so scholarships, trusts, awards and loans are available. Demonstrating talent is possible but it is difficult to prove prospective earnings when a career is commencing. The Loan Fund for Musical Instruments is a charitable scheme set up in 1981 to lend at a nominal interest rate. Nigel Brown is an investment manager specializing in financing fine instruments and he plans to launch a collective investment scheme in the autumn of 1992. The fund would buy the instrument and then the musician would pay according to their means. Another possibility is borrowing instruments.

Finance, Equipment and supplies, Musical instruments, Musicians, English, British musicians

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Playing party games with education

Article Abstract:

It is considered that the way the UK National Curriculum removes choice for pupils is a very backward step. The Board of Education said in 1929 that variations were needed in the curriculum to meet the specific needs of scholars. In 1944 the Labour Secretary of State for Education James Chuter-Ede said state control over the curriculum prevented wise and sound education and that there was no single curriculum for every child. These comments are as true today as they were then and should be taken into account in a restructuring of the curriculum policy.

Education and state, Social policy, Education policy, Curricula, Education, Curriculum

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Let's make the global playing field level

Article Abstract:

The increasingly international nature of economic activity has brought serious problems for many companies, and this has prompted some observers to call for a return to protectionism. A better approach would be to focus on outward-looking solidarity, creating codes of ethnical and environmental conduct which would ensure that all companies can compete on the same basis. It is now time for the UK to take a stronger line on the promotion of world social rights and regulations.

International aspects, Column, Business ethics

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