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Director of the Victorian College of the Arts, Professor Su Baker, gives an update on the Faculty as it heads into its 40th year. Click here to read the article.

Finally an update on the Uni Melb admin and rental charges! Well…sort of.

Yesterday the lavish University of Melbourne advertorial lift-out in The Age featured VCA as its lead story. Not surprisingly, there was no mention of the SAVE VCA campaign, and there seems to be an unusually heavy focus on justifiying the new Dean (Barry Conyngham) is right for the job, but of note: The long-held suspicion [...]

The Age has today reported where the $6m p/a in Victorian Government funding for VCA will go (click here to read the story). It seems Premier & Arts Minister Ted Baillieu is mindful these funds need to be protected from the University of Melbourne, so he’s drawing up a “memorandum of understanding” – but will [...]

The below message is from Director of VCA, Su Baker: Dear SaveVCA, You have! THANK YOU! It is my great pleasure to share our excitement with you the good news we have received from the Baillieu Government in the recent State Budget announcement.  Premier and Minister for the Arts Ted Baillieu, has delivered on the [...]

VCA was a welcome addition to today’s Victorian State budget. Click for the official release (html or PDF). So the State Government has well and truly delivered on its funding promise for VCA – but when will the University of Melbourne get real on VCA rental and admin fees (see our last post for more [...]

In welcome news, VCA’s $6m in recurring annual funding from the Victorian State Government has been confirmed by Premier and Arts Minister Ted Baillieu but he won’t be handing over the cash to Uni Melb lightly. THE AGE: Baillieu confirms his election promise of $6 million a year to the Victorian College of the Arts, although [...]

Director of VCA Su Baker (the non-Music portion of VCAM) has unveiled the blueprint for VCA’s new Degrees which start from 2012 and include Contemporary Music and Music Theatre. Read the news in today’s The Australian What are you thoughts? Post below or on Facebook Use the “share” button above to alert your classmates and [...]

In his first detailed interview since becoming Dean of VCAM,  Barry Conyngham has already declared he wants VCAM to stay part of the University of Melbourne and that he “ thinks that for a lot of students the Melbourne Model could be fantastic.” Comments Mr Conyngham has made before VCA staff and students have returned to campus. However, [...]

VCAM Dean Barry Conyngham A quick update for some big news – the new Dean of VCAM is Professor Barry Conyngham. The Dean of VCAM sits above the two newly created roles of Director of VCA (Su Baker) and Director of Melbourne Conservatorium of Music (Gary McPherson). We welcome Prof Conyngham and wish him well for [...]