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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]