Method of Delivery
                     
  Essentially a distance education program, students are expected to attend for live lectures and tutorials at Guild centres on a twice weekly basis where distance permits. Videotapes of the live sessions are sent on to remote students to provide them not only with information, but the feeling of participation.  

Credit for AGMS Examination Passes

Many of the Practical Music skills from AGMS Grade IV onwards and Theory of Music Knowledge from AGMS Grade II onwards are suitable to allow prior learning credits for appropriate, approved units where passes have been obtained in AGMS examinations.  See Student Access page for documents referring to Recognition of Prior Learning and Pathways Document for more information.

Financial Assistance

Fee Help is now available for students enrolling in the Bachelor of Music Degree.  The AGMED was approved as a HEP provider in November 2006.  Students should request the FEE HELP application form & information booklet from the Guild if they require fee help.

Students enrolled on any of the Nationally Registered courses may be eligible for Austudy allowances. The AGMED’s Centerlink Institution Code is 3D064.

Articulation

Two years of a diploma requires a final year on university campus to obtain a Bachelor degree. Three years of diploma studies gives you an Advanced diploma as well as Bachelor degree with one year on university campus.  The new Certificate IV gives you entry to the Bachelor of Music degree.

 

      
 

Careers in the Music Industry

          
 

There is a wide range of careers leading from a Guild qualification, some examples of which are listed below:

  • Recording: Artists and repertoire specialists; recording artists; studio session musicians; writers and arrangers; record producers; studio engineers; technicians; managers; copyright and contract specialists; promoters and marketers; artists managers and agents; music archivists; performing rights specialists; radio plugging.
  • Live performance: Musical directors; instrumentalists; vocalists; writers/arrangers/ orchestrators/copyists; artists’ managers; booking agents; stage producers; stage managers; transportation personnel; instrument technicians and tuners; mixers/audio engineers, designers and technicians; lighting designers and technicians.
  • Computer software and multimedia: Producers; programmers and designers of music software packages for composition; performance and learning applications; producers; artists; programmers and designers of multi-media packages; artists and creators.
  • Music retail: Managers; marketing staff; sales and merchandising personnel; buyers; wholesalers and distributors.
    Music publishing (notation): Licensing specialists; sample editors; copyists; editors; graphic designers.
  • Concert halls and venues: Composers; performers; programmers; administrative and management staff; catalogue compilers; stage managers; sound engineers; technicians; promoters; presenters; human, physical and financial resources staff
       
   
  • Music publishing (licensing): Copyright/licensing specialists; marketers; promoters and distributors; managers
    Music video: Writers/arrangers; designers; producers; technicians; licensing specialists; copyright specialists; sourcing personnel; sampling personnel
  • Advertising: Jingle writers; specialist performers; musical directors; sourcing; sampling; copyright; music librarians
    Music teaching: Schools (government and private); adult and continuing education; TAFE; higher education; private music teaching; studios and instrument shops
  • Radio, film and television: Music programmers; music directors; music promoters; music video specialists; technical staff; composers/arrangers of film and radio scores; soundtrack producers; editors; mixers
  • Music media: Music critics; programmers; musicologists/researchers; producers; scriptwriters; commentators; music journalists and on air presenters
  • Music therapy: Performers; programmers; music therapists