TAFE or trade-hall is what you need for the practice of music

Well Youngest wants to do classical and the only TAFE in the metro area that does music is geared towards the kids who want to be rock stars.

_{at least he'll learn how to perform and record so there's that}

And then having said that his violin teacher asked if his friend (who plays contemporary/pop) was able to play metal (apparently he can) and to jam with him if he did XD

I don't know how diary or personally explorative the "personal explorations" are but that does seem to be the kind of thing unis should be geared towards as much as rehashing/being familiar with old stuff.

Can understand your miff if it's pretty much a diary though.

_{when you said you couldn't remember the fancy name for it I jumped straight to "personal knowledge base" but surely nobody would submit one of those as an assessment piece}

Maybe you need to correct your students and let them know you are a profess...ional XD