NiTRO Creative Matters

Perspectives on creative arts in higher education

Sydney

The David Harold Tribe Symphony Award aims to promote interest in musical composition and to encourage the writing of music in Australia, to help and give incentive to composers and to provide them with additional monetary amounts thus enabling them to further their education in this field. All resident Australian

The very phrase “The Dawkins Reforms” evokes an image of Minister John Dawkins adding the flourishing touches to a paper that was, overnight, to disrupt the settled and contented life in Australia’s art and music schools, and send tertiary creative artists trudging in Lowryesque procession to the university

Sixty five days since students occupied the administration building at the Sydney College of the Arts in protest against the University of Sydney's proposed changes for students and staff, police and security guards have moved in to remove protesters. . .