Share The Chair of the VCAM Review Ziggy Switkowski (also Chair of Opera Australia), whilst lamenting OA’s financial status for 2009 to The Age, looked longingly back to 2008 when the company posted a $837,785 surplus thanks to a musical! Mr Switkowski calls it the “My Fair Lady Effect”, with much of OA’s 2008 surplus [...]
ShareRespected arts journalist Michaela Boland of The Australian suggests the hope placed in Kevin 07 in terms of support for the arts, was perhaps misplaced. The article published 10/04/10 shows anger is rife amongst the arts industry – the traditional Labor heartland, with everyone from Melbourne Theatre Company to Sydney’s Company B Belvoir frustrated with [...]
ShareThe Age have revealed VCAM Management and the University of Melbourne have voted for allowing the consideration of ENTER scores (Year 12 Marks) for VCA applicants. This is completely against VCA’s traditional focus on talent-based entry which was SUPPOSED to have been protected by the merger Heads of Agreement. Read the story here. One can’t [...]
ShareIn welcome news, the Chair of the Review Committee Ziggy Switkowski has committed to three student forums, where students will be able talk directly to the Chair without the Heads of School or Deputy Dean present. It is absolutely essential that every VCAM student attend the forum for their discipline because this Review (and indeed [...]
Share 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 [...]
Share 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 [...]
ShareThe 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 [...]
ShareThe 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 [...]
ShareWe’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 [...]
ShareCrikey.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 [...]