In an embarrasing blow for the University of Melbourne, even its own Music School wants out of VCAM (or “Vacuum” as it has been nicknamed by some Music staff).
Read the article from The Age here.
Read the full submission from the 31 academic Parkville & Southbank music staff via our previous post (it’s submission # 318).
What do [...]
It may have taken 10 months, but the truth of VCA’s financial situation is rapidly coming to light. Further to today’s coverage in The Australian, Crikey have revealed that a supplementary submission to the VCAM Review by Turnbull, Mathews, Denton & Landy details that an independent audit of VCA’s property value is estimated at $230m.
The UoM charging the VCA $6 [...]
The Australian has revealed former VCA advisory board chairs Noel Turnbull and Lynne Landy, with former Victorian arts minister Race Mathews, have called for independent research on the costs the university is charging to the VCA and the benefits to the university. This is amid speculation by a great many public submissions to the VCAM [...]
The overwhelming majority of published submissions to the VCAM Review support the pursuit of a revitalised, independent VCA, funded by the arts ministry.
With the deadline for submissions having only just past, former VCA Advisory Board members Noel Turnbull and Lynne Landy joined forces with VCA’s first Administator Noel Denton and The Hon Dr Race Mathews to [...]
We’re almost there, with submissions to the VCA Discussion Paper due in 24 hours.
We all have alot to be proud of that this Review exists. As pointed out in The Age “Although VCAM and the university characterize the review as part of its ongoing ‘commitment to a consultative process,’ there’s no doubt its wide-ranging ambit [...]
Crikey.com have today revealed that Dean Sharman Pretty has appointed a consultant from a organisation she is a director of to review the much loved VCA Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts & Cultural Development. The consultant is not indigenous.
Read the article here (copyright Crikey.com)
Yet again it is has been left to the media to police University senior management. [...]
Only 2 out of 9 staff and student positions in the VCAM Review Committee announced by the University of Melbourne on Friday (05/02/10) were elected, proving Vice Chancellor Glyn Davis never had any intention of allowing a truly independent review of the former Victorian College of the Arts and Faculty of Music.
In a move that [...]
Apathy is now VCA’s biggest threat. A source within the College has revealed only 33 people have made submissions to the VCA Discussion Paper. In stark contrast to the 2000-strong SAVE VCA Rally in August 2009, the 13,000-member SAVE VCA Facebook, and the fact VCA itself has over 1000 students, the lack of engagement in [...]
When he’s not winning Academy Awards, VCA Film & TV graduate Adam Elliot is making YouTube videos encouraging you to do a submission to the VCA Discussion Paper.
Adam has enjoyed an incredible career post VCA and credits his success to the intensive, practical training he received at VCA. In the video, Adam highlights the need [...]
When the University of Melbourne removed the last reference to the “Victorian College of the Arts” at the St Kilda Rd campus on Friday 22/01/10, they may have underestimated the ferocity of the response. With talkback radio and Facebook flooded by angry SAVE VCA member comments, some clever staff and students went about replacing the [...]