Calls for Australian schools to boost music education

Music can lift learning outcomes, say education experts, with a rock festival this weekend on Lord Howe Island set to highlight some of that success.

Children take part in a musical performance on Lord Howe Island. Source: Supplied

Extensive research into the social, behavioural and academic benefits of music being taught in schools underpins a new decade-long music education strategy in South Australia.    

And now there are calls for all states to follow its lead.

Musician Ghassan Allamddin comments on such calls.