The Australian National University has announced that its School of Music will no longer be included in the restructure plans laid out in its Renew ANU document, which has now been finalised.

In the School of Arts and Science’s new implementation plan, the School of Music will not be disestablished. It will also see the creation of a new Performance+ Hub from 2026, which will offer one-on-one tuition.

ANU School of Music. Photo @ Martin Ollman Photography

Announced in July, the proposed restructuring under Renew ANU would have established a new School of Creative and Cultural Practice, in which a disestablished School of Music, School of Art and Design and Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies would sit.

Aiming to save $100 million, Renew ANU would have led to the removal of more than 50 positions across the three schools with seven redundancies slated for the School of Music. It also planned to overhaul music courses and discontinue one-on-one tuition in a shift away from a conservatorium model and toward a music technology focus.

The decision was met with widespread criticism and anger from staff, students and the national music community. In...