Hanh Doan

@hanhsolo1.bsky.social

Senior Lecturer in Music Education and Initial Teacher Education & Senior Academic Skills Tutor (University of Hertfordshire). Netballer, violinist.

NEW: ISM analysis of GCSE music shows that entries fell by 1.5% since 2025 across the UK after two years of increased entries. In England alone, entries have fallen 1.6% since 2025 and 27% since the EBacc was introduced in 2010. Read our analysis and reaction in full: www.ism.org/news/gcse-mu...

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www.bbc.co.uk/sport/netbal... brilliant article explaining why netball is more than just a sport for women and its quiet yet significant role in empowering women over the years. "So really it's a misunderstood hotbed of feminist advancement - because it disguised its purposes so carefully."

Commonwealth Games: Netball's basketball roots and 2032 Olympic dreams

Derived from basketball and developed by teenagers in late-Victorian England, netball is sport's great misunderstood "girly game". It could be heading to the Olympics in 2032.

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Performing and creative arts university courses will no longer receive funding from a government teaching grant as part of “difficult decisions” about spending priorities, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has said.

DfE slashes creative and performing arts teaching grants for universities - Arts Professional

Performing and creative arts university courses will no longer receive funding from a government teaching grant as part of "difficult decisions" about

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And we go again. Thrilled to have 9 secondary music trainees at @herts.ac.uk this year. They are already proving to be an open-minded bunch so I know it's going to be a thought-provoking year for them! Now to make more time for this second edition...

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This episode was part of a bigger conversation with my PGCE students last year as we began to discuss issues surrounding diversifying and decolonising in music education. Thank you to Nathan Holder for allowing us to record his poem

Diversifying and Decolonising the University@ddtupodcast.bsky.social · 2y ago

NEW EPISODE about decolonising the music school curriculum, made by @hanhsolo1.bsky.social and her students. ft a poem by Nathan Holder… open.spotify.com/episode/69np...