The 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 [...]
In 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 [...]
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 # [...]
A short note to let you know that today VCAM Review Committee Chairperson Ziggy Switkowski announced that you have an opportunity to present to the Review Committee on 17 March 2010 regarding VCA’s future. In order to request a time, visit the Review website shown below and lodge your request by 9 March 2010. We [...]
In a letter to Crikey’s editor, VCAM Review Chair gives readers an update on the Review process. Read the article here (starts page 3 of the PDF). What are your thoughts? If you are a current student, did the University or VCAM Management make it clear to you that you had an extension to March [...]
Last week a new voice emerged in the VCA debate in the form of Ex (and 10-year veteran) VCA Film & TV lecturer Steve Thomas. Steve Thomas, no longer the documentary lecturer, takes up the story, in a year when the documentary course is not being offered at all at VCAM. Published by Screen Hub [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]