The Strad, 13 May 2025: Save the Newark School Grassroots Campaign Launched.

Students at the Newark School of Musical Instrument Crafts have taken to the market town’s streets to protest the decision not to take students on to the 2025–26 degree programme. Notices declaring ‘Save the Newark School of Musical Instrument Crafts’ have appeared in shops and pubs around the town, while the petition launched on Friday 7 May has now reached over 6,000 signatures.

On 12 May Lincoln College, which owns and oversees both Newark College and the School of Musical Instrument Craft (MIC), put out a press release stating: ‘The College remains committed to the small amount of affected students and to current learners on their Level 5 and Level 6 courses will be supported, with no change to their courses. At present, there are four students who are being directly affected by a potential single course closure as well as eight others who we have offered places to.