The 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 [...]
VCA 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 [...]
NTEU 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 [...]
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 VCA [...]
It’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 [...]
For all it’s flaws, Ziggy Switkowski’s Review of VCAM got at least one thing right – training based on “studio-based learning, intensive practice and performance” works. And what better proof does the University need than the incredible achievement of the VCA Film & TV school at Cannes as discussed in The Age today (15/05/10): Nicolette [...]
After six months and 371 public submissions, the University of Melbourne- run Review into VCAM’s future has been released. Quick Report summary: Recommends Melbourne Model be put off until 2013 pending another review. Suggests the Melbourne Model has been successfully applied in VCAM Music. Recommends Uni Melb consider the return of VCA Music Theatre and [...]
The Age have revealed the truth behind the Melbourne Model – $200K degrees. Read the article here. As we have always known, the Melbourne Model is about keeping students at University longer, and pushing them into the expensive post-graduate education sphere where fees are not regulated. VCAM Music is already under the Melbourne Model. The [...]
In true University of Melbourne style, Head of Performing Arts & VCAM Deputy Dean Kristy Edmunds sent out a quiet little email at the end of Tuesday inviting people to view concepts for a new “Visual Identity” for VCA – staff and students have until today to view the concepts. Yes that’s right – less [...]
In a reminder of what we’re fighting for, The Australian has reported that two short films by Victorian College of the Arts students are Australia’s only representatives at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Truly this is a remarkable achievement by the VCA Film & TV School under the most trying circumstances imposed by the University [...]