We are announcing today, on the 1 March, the fee increases which will take effect from 1 September. We are giving six months notice because the fee increases are significant and we appreciate that students need time to consider their enrolment plans in the light of the increases. In October 2010, Lord Browne published...
This is a statement from the OCA Student Association Committee, in response to the OCA’s announcement on fee levels from September 2012. It is regrettable that the new Government policy on Higher Education Funding has put OCA, an open access educational charity committed to extending arts learning opportunities to all, into a position where...
Sarah Bayly is a textiles student who keeps an excellent blog. What is striking about it is the thoughtfulness with which it has been structured, with areas for books she has looked at, blogs she likes, among other things. Of course it is also broken up into assignments, projects and exercises too. Sarah documents...
Valerie Newman recently submitted some drawings for assessment, and here, assessor and tutor Richard Liley explains what it is about her drawings that makes them so strong.
A concert audience is a rather different creature now compared with what it once was, although it can give performers just as hard a time as reputedly in the 18th century. It is not unusual for a singer in an Italian opera house to receive applause and shouts of ‘encore’ which, far from being...
Colonel Soleil’s Boys, 2010 © Richard Mosse. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, NY On Friday 13 April we will be returning to the Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool for what promises to be a stimulating study visit. Infra is the first solo exhibition in the UK by photographer Richard Mosse. Mosse’s...
When I heard the composer Sally Beamish talk about her composition for the Cultural Olympiad several weeks ago I took inspiration from the way she had responded to the theme of sports. The composition Spinal Chords, commissioned by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, expresses the slow recovery process of journalist Melanie Reid...
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