Perspectives on creative arts in higher education
30 October saw perhaps the largest gathering of tertiary creative arts leadership in DDCA’s history, all brought together around the topics of teaching and graduate employability and measurement and assessment in creative arts research.
Comparisons of the data from the ERA 2010 and ERA2012 made it abundantly clear that a system adapted to measure quality at the discipline-specific level, without a one-size-fits-all approach, is a system that can be manipulated or gamed, usually to the benefit of dominant disciplines.
Entering the fourth industrial revolution poses major challenges for work and life futures. Many studies over the last decade have forecasted that we are entering an era in which digital networks, artificial intelligence, robotics and automation, together with scientific innovation, climate change, changing demographics, and globalisation will fundamentally
At the DDCA Leadership Forum on 30 October 2019, current board member Professor Julian Goddard, part of the executive since 2015, announced that he would not be standing in 2020. A ballot of members attending was held to approve his replacement for 2020 and Associate Professor Kim Cunio
This bumper edition follows on from our successful and engaging leadership forum on 30 October, held at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. The forum connected many of our leaders across the practicing art disciplines and discussed the two most important aspects of what we
The Australia Council has released its 2018-19 Annual Report, Valuing the Arts, highlighting support for the creation of more than 9500 new works and 1000 world premieres. Australia Council Chair Sam Walsh AO reinforced the importance of the arts in Australia, calling for ‘far greater recognition to the value of
Screen Australia has released a Screen Australia for Beginners guide to help newbies to the agency’s role and funding programs find their way through the system.
A recent UK report argues the need for creativity across all aspects of the school curriculum, rather than just its current containment in ‘arts’ subjects. The report has been produced by the Durham Commission on Creativity and Education, a body that includes academics from Durham University with input from leading
Following on from its public consultation during 2018, the Commonwealth Government has announced a new National Performing Arts Partnership Framework, which will include up to eight years funding for partnership organisations. According to the media release the framework will provide: ‘a clear approach to prioritising outcomes for the Australian performing arts
Griffith University has appointed Dr Bianca Beetson, currently Program Leader of Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art at Queensland College of Art, to be the new Director of the university’s Indigenous Research Unit. Congratulations Bianca!
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.