Complex sentence: The UK has pioneered the teaching of popular music, the first degree programme beginning as early as 1994 at Salford University, and postgraduate programmes developed for example at the Institute of Popular Music at the University of Liverpool.
Split into simpler sentences: The UK has pioneered the teaching of popular music, the first degree programme beginning as early as 1994 at Salford University. Postgraduate programmes were later introduced, for example at the Institute of Popular Music at the University of Liverpool.