Bachelors degree

For more than 18 months now I’ve been assisting a disabled student with the first module of a music degree course. My role has been a largely technical one - to create an Assistive Technology set-up that will enable the student to do the course, and to work with him in learning how to use it.  I’m not going to name the student or the University, as the whole experience raises some potentially sensitive issues.

I didn’t have the opportunity to gain accreditation in music at my special school, so it was 10 years before I finally got a place to study music at LIPA (Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts) in 2001. From LIPA I moved on to Chester College, from where I graduated in 2006 with a degree in Commercial Music Production. If my school had offered the opportunity to be accredited in music, it wouldn’t have taken more than 15 years to get my degree!

Here’s some background on my work with Drake Music, and my journey towards getting my degree.