Conservatoire

Conservatoire is the complete working system of a music conservatoire's academic registry - the office that admits instrumentalists by audition, assigns each one a principal-study teacher, allocates the practice rooms they live in, convenes the juries that examine them, and carries them to a graded diploma. It runs the audition rounds and the scales-and-repertoire requirements behind them, keeps the principal-study teaching record lesson by lesson against the hours each student is entitled to, maintains the instrument loan collection with its insurance values and service history, administers the graded syllabus and its external moderation, programmes the recital diary and the ensemble calls, tracks the attendance a conservatoire's funding depends on, and reconciles the fee and scholarship account.

Fourteen real modules, each a browsable page with real seeded data. APPLICANTS AND AUDITIONS carries the set repertoire offered against the syllabus requirement, the scales and sight-reading marks, each panellist's independent mark and the agreed mark, and the recommendation from offer to recall for a second round. STUDENTS AND PRINCIPAL STUDY holds the matriculation number, the principal and second study, the teacher assigned and the date of that assignment. The TEACHING HOURS LEDGER is the heart of it - each student's entitlement in hours per term against the hours actually delivered, every lesson marked delivered, cancelled by teacher, cancelled by student or rescheduled, the make-up lessons owed and the deadline for them, and each teacher's own load against their contracted maximum.

PRACTICE ROOMS AND LOCKERS tracks the scarcest resource in the building, down to the piano in each room and its tuning interval. INSTRUMENT LOAN COLLECTION, JURIES AND PANELS with their sealed marks and declared conflicts of interest, GRADED SYLLABUS AND MODERATION with the marks before and after the external moderator's sample, the RECITAL AND ENSEMBLE DIARY, the ATTENDANCE RECORD against the eighty per cent threshold, AURAL AND THEORY ASSESSMENT with raw marks scaled and the rationale stated, FEES AND SCHOLARSHIPS, and PROGRESSION AND AWARDS carrying each student to a board decision complete the registry's view. A STUDENT PORTAL shows a student their hours, their rooms, their next jury and the ensemble calls they are required at, and a REGISTRY DASHBOARD closes the loop.

The signature drawing is the term teaching-and-jury stave: Michaelmas term drawn as an engraved five-line stave, its fifteen weeks ruled as bar-lines each numbered in a boxed rehearsal mark, each department stepped as its own line of delivered teaching hours and named at its own terminal point on an opaque chip, the per-student weekly entitlement ruled as a datum across the whole stave, the thirteen juries of the term set as stemmed note heads at their real weeks with their department and candidate count on their own chips, the recitals on a lane beneath, and every week that falls short of entitlement struck in carmine with the shortfall in hours stated. Designed in mid-century modernist LP sleeve design of the Reid Miles school crossed with an engraved music-manuscript plate: a cold paper lilac-grey ground, deep indigo ink, muted violet-grey hairline staves and small-caps credit blocks, and a single carmine reserved strictly for a student short of entitlement, a room over ninety per cent utilisation, a mark still sealed past its release deadline, a student below the attendance threshold, an account in arrears or an applicant recalled and not yet reheard.