Perspectives on creative arts in higher education
So, the final whistle has sounded; the REF has blown for full-time, seven years until the next one, and time now to pick over the entrails of another exhausting – and exhaustive – research assessment exercise across the disaggregated countries once described in the Atlas as the “United Kingdom”.
By now you will have heard Australia has a new Government, a new Education Minister, a growing crossbench in the Senate and the potential for real change in the tertiary education system. Arts, social science and humanities disciplines suffered under the previous administration and palpable disregard for the creative arts ran deep.
In the spirit of reconciliation, the DDCA acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.