This is a serious worry. Although it is officially denied that there are cuts to the traditional music course I have it on good authority that these are very real - for example tutors (who now receive minimal/no admin support) find that there is no means of arranging rooms to do their work. There is a thread on the implications of this on FootStompin' at http://www.footstompin.com/public/forum?threadid=106422

This raises a bigger issue - pay increases are by and large outside the control of educational establishments: why should students suffer from the lack of a wider strategy by central government for funding of such training?