Music schools + Music industries

[3notesAbar]

Warning: this could turn nasty. So take it at face value when the need arises.

Being a recent graduate from a certain Art College in Singapore, I've come to realise that the disparity between the costs of funding a diploma, and an honors degree for example is by no means small. Don't even mention about going to music colleges overseas for an education in music. Its not ridiculous, but on one hand, its very expensive for a Singaporean. I'll move on at the risk of sounding peeved.

I'm ignorant when it comes to knowing about the different types of degrees and dips one can obtain from various music conservatories/colleges around the world, and in Singapore.

Of course, the content of the course is everything when it comes to music, not the prestige! Hence, i've always felt that pursuing a music degree should be purely out of passion, and not in hopes of being a 'high-flyer' via MA's and BA's if theres such a thing in the music. I mean cmon, would you let Rick Rubin produce your album or some nutty professor with no industrial experience do it?

Singapore is a small country and has a very conservative music industry. To pay tens or roughly a hundred thousand bucks for passion is a brave choice. Would you?

 

[Deanluah]

Already doing so...

I can't say that the music industry is not lucrative. However, I do honestly think that it is too small to support the population of media students and small scale studios that are churned out every year.

It's not new to hear of fresh grads in whom "expect" a job as soon as they leave school. They feel like they are the best that Singapore has to offer as soon as they get a degree/diploma/master/hons/PSLE/kindergarden in "xxx".

I'm not putting down all grads. But in real life, its more than your educational qualifications. It's a mix of that, experience, personal determination, interaction skills, looks, and all the other factors that you may need to "prostitute" yourself to a employer or client. And when you get that all down pat, you may find yourself doing something else different or new altogether. Thats life ain't it, as forrest gump would put it, "life is like a box of chocolates, you'll never know what you get". haha... ok lame. :?:

Oh man, I'm rambling...

 

[rottenramone]

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Ah, it's a complete opposite world when you join the civil service and sign on. remember its your paper that counts in this strange dimension.

 

[mikemann]

This brings me back to my schooling days, where IT courses certification reached feverish pitch.

Every other crap school is offering the same diploma and degree to the next unsuspecting post teen and young adult person. This story is the same, it's a booming industry, sure to land a high paying job upon obtaining the cert.

Even then, the job market is already saturated with the influx of new graduates and foreign "cheap" talents. Whatever good post had already being filled 5yrs prior to the field becoming 'boom'.
Most end up with a cert promising a starting pay of $1600 to $2500, but actually the going market rate is $800 to $1200.

Because the quality of 'general courses school' giving such specialised courses, the cert can hardly reflect the graduate's ability. We got plenty of imcompetent 'qualified' staffs, lurking in all the corners, eeking out a living by dodging arrows and dumping their workloads to able colleagues. This does no good to improve the quality of live of this profession.

So, the same can somewhat be said for the mentioned industry.