ShareMelbourne Weekly journalist Bianca Hall has revealed senior Music staff fear the once vibrant VCA Music and UoM Music schools, now combined into VCAM Music, are becoming a “cultural morgue” as a result of the failed merger and severe financial cut-backs. VCAM Music has bore the brunt of the merger, being the only Melbourne Model stream [...]
The Age have today revealed that The Australian Greens have become the first political party to put forward a joint state and federal solution for VCA. And according to the five-time AFI recipient and Oscar winner (and VCA Grad!) Adam Elliot, help can’t come fast enough. Click for more…
ShareIn a two election year, we have a real chance to SAVE VCA. But you have to vote. Today residents in Melbourne’s north, from Richmond to Reservoir opened their Melbourne Times to read about VCA’s continuing struggle under a failed merger with the University of Melbourne, compounded by a deafening, year-long silence from the Federal [...]
Share It’s going to cost dollars and its going to cost them nationally and locally. Melbourne Times journalist Bianca Hall gives a detailed account of how Australia’s only multidisciplinary elite tertiary arts College VCA, is being left to the hands of a mercenary Melbourne University, whilst the Federal & State Labor Governments are yet to reveal [...]
ShareIf Gillard & Garrett wont come to us, we’ll go to them! The National Tertiary Education Union is firing up a bus for 30 VCA Staff, Students & Alumni to travel to Canberra to shake the tin for VCA on June 22. It’s probably the last sitting week before this year’s Federal election so we [...]
ShareThe Age’s Senior Arts Writer Gabriella Coslovich tells it like it is. Enough buck passing. Enough blaming the Howard Government. Enough faux “consulting”. Gillard (Fed Education), Garrett (Fed Arts), Batchelor (Vic Arts), Glyn Davis (Uni Melb) – SAVE VCA now for the students, the staff and for Australia’s arts economy. Read The Age story here [...]
ShareVCA has found a new ally in Julian Burnside QC who put current Victorian Premier John Brumby (Labor) and hopeful Opposition Leader Ted Baillieu on the spot in today’s The Age Melbourne Magazine - who will SAVE VCA? The Vic Liberals have been consistent with their promise of a guaranteed extra $6m p/a for VCA in addition to the [...]
ShareNTEU WANT NEW LEADERSHIP AT VCA The National Tertiary Education Union has today called for the resignation of VCAM Dean Sharman Pretty. Read The Age’s coverage here. Read the Screenhub coverage here. The NTEU have also made available a forum by which VCAM staff can submit their feedback on all things VCA. Click here to access the [...]
Share VCA has won at Cannes! “Deeper Than Yesterday,” directed by VCA’s Ariel Kleiman and produced by VCA’s Anna Kojevnikov has just been awarded the Kodak Discovery Award for Best Short Film. But as The Age reports, the days of this level of success may be numbered unless the Federal and State Labor Governments start SAVING [...]
ShareIt’s been a huge week for VCA in Parliament, at the besieged Wilin Centre and at the VCAM Graduation Ceremony. This post is a big one, so we’ve separated it into three sections: LIBS & GREENS SLAM BRUMBY OVER VCA Monday’s (17/5) Public Accounts and Estimates Committee hearing in the Victorian Parliament saw the Brumby [...]