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.
Springer has released a list of new books that might be of interest to NiTRO readers over the holiday break: Close Encounters of Art and Physics: An Artist’s View by Laura Pesce; Art and Soul: Rudolf Steiner, Interdisciplinary Art and Education edited by Victoria de Rijke; What Art Teaches Us:
Date: 20 November 2019Location: University of Melbourne, Parkville.Website: https://nvite.com/externalrelations/dd68f Celebrating the culmination of the four-week exhibition, Discover the Digital Archive, a panel of academics and industry professionals will discuss the legacy of the newly-launched VCA Film and Television Archive.
UNSW Director of Creative Enterprise Liz Hughes has been announced as the new CEO for the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA). In addition to her UNSW experience, Liz was also Director Partnerships and Development and Director AFTRS Open at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS). She will
Employability is a buzz word and likely to remain so as performance-based funding comes into force, so what is employability in the context of design and the creative arts, and is it beyond the remit of a degree in these disciplines?
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
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.