Hi - thanks for sending this good initiative email. Assume you have spotted the typo in the 2nd para - hugh. Best Ann



On 10 Dec 2010, at 00:01, SCODHE automatic digest system wrote:

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> Topics of the day:
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>  1. cuts (18)
> 
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> 
> Date:    Thu, 9 Dec 2010 08:47:19 +0000
> From:    Sarahleigh Castelyn <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: cuts
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On 8 Dec 2010, at 23:37, "Midgelow Vida" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
>> Dear Jane, yes these are clearly important matters.
>> 
>> See a (proposed) letter to be sent tomorrow first thing (with thanks to Tom at Scudd et al)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Open Letter from the Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education
>> 
>> The Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education represents lecturers and researchers of Dance across the UK.
>> 
>> We write to voice our extreme disappointment at the governments proposals for the funding of Higher Education Institutions. We are particularly concerned that the withdrawal of public funding for the Arts will put our subject at extreme risk and lead to a lack of cultural leaders, creative thinkers and those able to change lives through their creative vision, enriching us all in invaluable ways.
>> 
>> The effect of these proposals in the creative sector will be hugh and very negative. Further, as with other subjects in the arts, notably the Standing Conference of Drama Departments, we suggest to you that the assumption that stem subjects are of greater value (economic or otherwise) lacks a clear basis in evidence, and fails to pay attention to the impact of the arts across all sectors. Indeed as the recent report by Universities UK states: 'There can be no doubt the UK's creative economy is a jewel in our crown - a national success story and an area which the UK can rightly claim to be a global leader' (Crossick, preface). To place the dance and arts generally at risk is therefore very short sighted, for creatives and the creative industries will be crucial to the economic, as well as social and personal, well being of the UK into the future.
>> 
>> We most strongly urge you to reconsider.
>> 
>> 
>> Dr Vida L Midgelow,
>> Chair, Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education (SCODHE)
>> 
>> 
>> Vida L. Midgelow, PhD.
>> Reader, Dance and Performance
>> Chair, Standing Conference on Dance in Higher Education
>> Director, The Choreographic Lab
>> School of the Arts
>> University of Northampton
>> Avenue Campus
>> St. George's Avenue
>> Northampton
>> NN2 6JD
>> email: [log in to unmask]
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dance in higher education. on behalf of Jane
>> Sent: Wed 12/8/2010 19:19
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: cuts
>> 
>> 
>> For those of you on the SCUDD list you will see possible ideas for a  draft
>> letter against the introduction of higher fees for University education. I
>> know the time is almost too short with the vote upon us but I hope that
>> someone on the SCHODE exec could also draft and send a letter to Willetts et
>> al.
>> I believe it is vital that the dance community develop a political voice and
>> speak out when the opportunity arises.
>> 
>> Below is the suggested letter posted to SCUDD from Cathy Turner at Exeter
>> (with apologies and thanks to Cathy)
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Jane
>> 
>> --
>> Dr Jane Bacon
>> Divisional Leader and Reader, Performance Studies
>> The School of the Arts
>> The University of Northampton
>> St Georges Ave
>> Northampton
>> NN2 6JD
>> 
>> 01604 893296
>> 
>> Hi all  not on SCUDD exec, but this is a kind of draft put together from
>> the Warwick one and extracts of my own letter to MP and Willetts earlier. It
>> may be blundering, but feel free to use any of it as material towards your
>> own or a general letter.
>> 
>> Hope you like the Shakespearean reference at the end.
>> 
>> Cathy
>> 
>> We, academic members of Drama departments across the UK, express our deep
>> concern at the undue haste with which the government is proceeding to enact
>> legislation to change the principle upon which the funding of higher
>> education is based. We believe that these proposed
>> changes have the potential to inflict irreversible damage upon our culture
>> of education, learning and research. We strongly support the
>> call for a Public Commission of Inquiry on the future of Higher Education in
>> England and Wales.
>> 
>> 
>> Savings made by cutting public spending on higher education will not
>> ultimately be justified either economically or socially. Graduates
>> contribute to the economy and, as importantly, they also contribute to
>> society in a wider, less quantifiable sense. This whole process suggests a
>> crassly materialist and short-termist view of what education can offer,
>> without recognizing the ways in which lives and communities are transformed
>> by the encouragement of curiosity, imagination and exploration.
>> 
>> Insisting that education is a private benefit only, to be funded by the
>> individual towards financial superiority, is to grossly underestimate
>> education as a social good.
>> 
>> Opening the Universities up to market forces will also have unpredictable,
>> but quite possibly devastating consequences, with institutions failing or
>> closing and volatility in the system that is not conducive to the longer
>> time-frames of investigative research, nor to the gradual development of
>> innovative pedagogy.
>> 
>> Drama, as a subject, may be particularly vulnerable in this Obrave new
>> world¹, since it is unlikely to attract students who feel that it is
>> essential to equip themselves for a high-earning career. This, despite the
>> fact that many Drama students are attractive to employers, precisely because
>> their less quantifiable Otransferable skills¹ make them good employees and
>> colleagues. This, also despite the fact that the contributions of this
>> diverse and expanding subject area bring both economic rewards and just as
>> importantly, social benefit, and intellectual, imaginative and indeed
>> political inspiration to many.
>> 
>> Yours sincerely,
>> 
>> etc
>> 
>> 
>> 
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> 
> Date:    Thu, 9 Dec 2010 08:49:07 +0000
> From:    Sarahleigh Castelyn <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: cuts
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> I would be happy to put my signature on this letter as well.
> 
> All the best,
> Sarahleigh
> 
> (UEL)
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On 8 Dec 2010, at 23:37, "Midgelow Vida" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
>> Dear Jane, yes these are clearly important matters.
>> 
>> See a (proposed) letter to be sent tomorrow first thing (with thanks to Tom at Scudd et al)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Open Letter from the Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education
>> 
>> The Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education represents lecturers and researchers of Dance across the UK.
>> 
>> We write to voice our extreme disappointment at the governments proposals for the funding of Higher Education Institutions. We are particularly concerned that the withdrawal of public funding for the Arts will put our subject at extreme risk and lead to a lack of cultural leaders, creative thinkers and those able to change lives through their creative vision, enriching us all in invaluable ways.
>> 
>> The effect of these proposals in the creative sector will be hugh and very negative. Further, as with other subjects in the arts, notably the Standing Conference of Drama Departments, we suggest to you that the assumption that stem subjects are of greater value (economic or otherwise) lacks a clear basis in evidence, and fails to pay attention to the impact of the arts across all sectors. Indeed as the recent report by Universities UK states: 'There can be no doubt the UK's creative economy is a jewel in our crown - a national success story and an area which the UK can rightly claim to be a global leader' (Crossick, preface). To place the dance and arts generally at risk is therefore very short sighted, for creatives and the creative industries will be crucial to the economic, as well as social and personal, well being of the UK into the future.
>> 
>> We most strongly urge you to reconsider.
>> 
>> 
>> Dr Vida L Midgelow,
>> Chair, Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education (SCODHE)
>> 
>> 
>> Vida L. Midgelow, PhD.
>> Reader, Dance and Performance
>> Chair, Standing Conference on Dance in Higher Education
>> Director, The Choreographic Lab
>> School of the Arts
>> University of Northampton
>> Avenue Campus
>> St. George's Avenue
>> Northampton
>> NN2 6JD
>> email: [log in to unmask]
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dance in higher education. on behalf of Jane
>> Sent: Wed 12/8/2010 19:19
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: cuts
>> 
>> 
>> For those of you on the SCUDD list you will see possible ideas for a  draft
>> letter against the introduction of higher fees for University education. I
>> know the time is almost too short with the vote upon us but I hope that
>> someone on the SCHODE exec could also draft and send a letter to Willetts et
>> al.
>> I believe it is vital that the dance community develop a political voice and
>> speak out when the opportunity arises.
>> 
>> Below is the suggested letter posted to SCUDD from Cathy Turner at Exeter
>> (with apologies and thanks to Cathy)
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Jane
>> 
>> --
>> Dr Jane Bacon
>> Divisional Leader and Reader, Performance Studies
>> The School of the Arts
>> The University of Northampton
>> St Georges Ave
>> Northampton
>> NN2 6JD
>> 
>> 01604 893296
>> 
>> Hi all  not on SCUDD exec, but this is a kind of draft put together from
>> the Warwick one and extracts of my own letter to MP and Willetts earlier. It
>> may be blundering, but feel free to use any of it as material towards your
>> own or a general letter.
>> 
>> Hope you like the Shakespearean reference at the end.
>> 
>> Cathy
>> 
>> We, academic members of Drama departments across the UK, express our deep
>> concern at the undue haste with which the government is proceeding to enact
>> legislation to change the principle upon which the funding of higher
>> education is based. We believe that these proposed
>> changes have the potential to inflict irreversible damage upon our culture
>> of education, learning and research. We strongly support the
>> call for a Public Commission of Inquiry on the future of Higher Education in
>> England and Wales.
>> 
>> 
>> Savings made by cutting public spending on higher education will not
>> ultimately be justified either economically or socially. Graduates
>> contribute to the economy and, as importantly, they also contribute to
>> society in a wider, less quantifiable sense. This whole process suggests a
>> crassly materialist and short-termist view of what education can offer,
>> without recognizing the ways in which lives and communities are transformed
>> by the encouragement of curiosity, imagination and exploration.
>> 
>> Insisting that education is a private benefit only, to be funded by the
>> individual towards financial superiority, is to grossly underestimate
>> education as a social good.
>> 
>> Opening the Universities up to market forces will also have unpredictable,
>> but quite possibly devastating consequences, with institutions failing or
>> closing and volatility in the system that is not conducive to the longer
>> time-frames of investigative research, nor to the gradual development of
>> innovative pedagogy.
>> 
>> Drama, as a subject, may be particularly vulnerable in this Obrave new
>> world¹, since it is unlikely to attract students who feel that it is
>> essential to equip themselves for a high-earning career. This, despite the
>> fact that many Drama students are attractive to employers, precisely because
>> their less quantifiable Otransferable skills¹ make them good employees and
>> colleagues. This, also despite the fact that the contributions of this
>> diverse and expanding subject area bring both economic rewards and just as
>> importantly, social benefit, and intellectual, imaginative and indeed
>> political inspiration to many.
>> 
>> Yours sincerely,
>> 
>> etc
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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> 
> Date:    Thu, 9 Dec 2010 08:54:34 +0000
> From:    Michael Huxley <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: cuts
> 
> Dear Vida,
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> I think this is an excellent and timely letter and complements Tom¹s very
> well
> 
> Bravo!
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> On 08/12/2010 23:36, "Midgelow Vida" <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> 
>> Dear Jane, yes these are clearly important matters.
>> 
>> See a (proposed) letter to be sent tomorrow first thing (with thanks to Tom at
>> Scudd et al)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Open Letter from the Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education
>> 
>> The Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education represents lecturers and
>> researchers of Dance across the UK.
>> 
>> We write to voice our extreme disappointment at the governments proposals for
>> the funding of Higher Education Institutions. We are particularly concerned
>> that the withdrawal of public funding for the Arts will put our subject at
>> extreme risk and lead to a lack of cultural leaders, creative thinkers and
>> those able to change lives through their creative vision, enriching us all in
>> invaluable ways.
>> 
>> The effect of these proposals in the creative sector will be hugh and very
>> negative. Further, as with other subjects in the arts, notably the Standing
>> Conference of Drama Departments, we suggest to you that the assumption that
>> stem subjects are of greater value (economic or otherwise) lacks a clear basis
>> in evidence, and fails to pay attention to the impact of the arts across all
>> sectors. Indeed as the recent report by Universities UK states: 'There can be
>> no doubt the UK's creative economy is a jewel in our crown - a national
>> success story and an area which the UK can rightly claim to be a global
>> leader' (Crossick, preface). To place the dance and arts generally at risk is
>> therefore very short sighted, for creatives and the creative industries will
>> be crucial to the economic, as well as social and personal, well being of the
>> UK into the future.
>> 
>> We most strongly urge you to reconsider.
>> 
>> 
>> Dr Vida L Midgelow,
>> Chair, Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education (SCODHE)
>> 
>> 
>> Vida L. Midgelow, PhD.
>> Reader, Dance and Performance
>> Chair, Standing Conference on Dance in Higher Education
>> Director, The Choreographic Lab
>> School of the Arts
>> University of Northampton
>> Avenue Campus
>> St. George's Avenue
>> Northampton
>> NN2 6JD
>> email: [log in to unmask]
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dance in higher education. on behalf of Jane
>> Sent: Wed 12/8/2010 19:19
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: cuts
>> 
>> 
>> For those of you on the SCUDD list you will see possible ideas for a  draft
>> letter against the introduction of higher fees for University education. I
>> know the time is almost too short with the vote upon us but I hope that
>> someone on the SCHODE exec could also draft and send a letter to Willetts et
>> al.
>> I believe it is vital that the dance community develop a political voice and
>> speak out when the opportunity arises.
>> 
>> Below is the suggested letter posted to SCUDD from Cathy Turner at Exeter
>> (with apologies and thanks to Cathy)
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Jane
>> 
>> --
>> Dr Jane Bacon
>> Divisional Leader and Reader, Performance Studies
>> The School of the Arts
>> The University of Northampton
>> St Georges Ave
>> Northampton
>> NN2 6JD
>> 
>> 01604 893296
>> 
>> Hi all  not on SCUDD exec, but this is a kind of draft put together from
>> the Warwick one and extracts of my own letter to MP and Willetts earlier. It
>> may be blundering, but feel free to use any of it as material towards your
>> own or a general letter.
>> 
>> Hope you like the Shakespearean reference at the end.
>> 
>> Cathy
>> 
>> We, academic members of Drama departments across the UK, express our deep
>> concern at the undue haste with which the government is proceeding to enact
>> legislation to change the principle upon which the funding of higher
>> education is based. We believe that these proposed
>> changes have the potential to inflict irreversible damage upon our culture
>> of education, learning and research. We strongly support the
>> call for a Public Commission of Inquiry on the future of Higher Education in
>> England and Wales.
>> 
>> 
>> Savings made by cutting public spending on higher education will not
>> ultimately be justified either economically or socially. Graduates
>> contribute to the economy and, as importantly, they also contribute to
>> society in a wider, less quantifiable sense. This whole process suggests a
>> crassly materialist and short-termist view of what education can offer,
>> without recognizing the ways in which lives and communities are transformed
>> by the encouragement of curiosity, imagination and exploration.
>> 
>> Insisting that education is a private benefit only, to be funded by the
>> individual towards financial superiority, is to grossly underestimate
>> education as a social good.
>> 
>> Opening the Universities up to market forces will also have unpredictable,
>> but quite possibly devastating consequences, with institutions failing or
>> closing and volatility in the system that is not conducive to the longer
>> time-frames of investigative research, nor to the gradual development of
>> innovative pedagogy.
>> 
>> Drama, as a subject, may be particularly vulnerable in this Obrave new
>> world¹, since it is unlikely to attract students who feel that it is
>> essential to equip themselves for a high-earning career. This, despite the
>> fact that many Drama students are attractive to employers, precisely because
>> their less quantifiable Otransferable skills¹ make them good employees and
>> colleagues. This, also despite the fact that the contributions of this
>> diverse and expanding subject area bring both economic rewards and just as
>> importantly, social benefit, and intellectual, imaginative and indeed
>> political inspiration to many.
>> 
>> Yours sincerely,
>> 
>> etc
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> 
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> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date:    Thu, 9 Dec 2010 08:47:04 +0000
> From:    Kerry Chappell <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: cuts
> 
> Ditto from here - I'm in a School of Education but we have a strong arts
> profile.  Happy also to put my name to it and it chimes with the letter I've
> already sent to local MP - who has confirmed he will be voting against the
> rise in fees today.
> Thanks
> Kerry
> Dr Kerry Chappell
> CREATE Research Fellow
> Graduate School of Education
> University of Exeter
> 
> 
> 
> On 08/12/2010 20:59, "Jo breslin" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
>> Dear Jane,
>> 
>> I have been lobbying local MPs about Cuts to arts subjects in general, but
>> think this is absolutely what should be done from what ever direction it can
>> come. It is never to late to act.
>> 
>> Happy to put my signature to it.
>> Best wishes
>> Jo
>> 
>> 
>> On 08/12/2010 19:19, "Jane" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> For those of you on the SCUDD list you will see possible ideas for a  draft
>>> letter against the introduction of higher fees for University education. I
>>> know the time is almost too short with the vote upon us but I hope that
>>> someone on the SCHODE exec could also draft and send a letter to Willetts et
>>> al.
>>> I believe it is vital that the dance community develop a political voice and
>>> speak out when the opportunity arises.
>>> 
>>> Below is the suggested letter posted to SCUDD from Cathy Turner at Exeter
>>> (with apologies and thanks to Cathy)
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> Jane
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date:    Thu, 9 Dec 2010 09:13:44 +0000
> From:    Jane <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: cuts
> 
> 
> Dear Vida
> Thank you for putting together this excellent letter, well done on behalf of
> all the dance community.
> Jane
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Dr Jane Bacon
> Divisional Leader and Reader, Performance Studies
> The School of the Arts
> The University of Northampton
> St Georges Ave
> Northampton
> NN2 6JD
> 
> 01604 893296
> 
> On 08/12/2010 23:36, "vida midgelow" <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> 
>> Dear Jane, yes these are clearly important matters.
>> 
>> See a (proposed) letter to be sent tomorrow first thing (with thanks to Tom at
>> Scudd et al)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Open Letter from the Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education
>> 
>> The Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education represents lecturers and
>> researchers of Dance across the UK.
>> 
>> We write to voice our extreme disappointment at the governments proposals for
>> the funding of Higher Education Institutions. We are particularly concerned
>> that the withdrawal of public funding for the Arts will put our subject at
>> extreme risk and lead to a lack of cultural leaders, creative thinkers and
>> those able to change lives through their creative vision, enriching us all in
>> invaluable ways.
>> 
>> The effect of these proposals in the creative sector will be hugh and very
>> negative. Further, as with other subjects in the arts, notably the Standing
>> Conference of Drama Departments, we suggest to you that the assumption that
>> stem subjects are of greater value (economic or otherwise) lacks a clear basis
>> in evidence, and fails to pay attention to the impact of the arts across all
>> sectors. Indeed as the recent report by Universities UK states: 'There can be
>> no doubt the UK's creative economy is a jewel in our crown - a national
>> success story and an area which the UK can rightly claim to be a global
>> leader' (Crossick, preface). To place the dance and arts generally at risk is
>> therefore very short sighted, for creatives and the creative industries will
>> be crucial to the economic, as well as social and personal, well being of the
>> UK into the future.
>> 
>> We most strongly urge you to reconsider.
>> 
>> 
>> Dr Vida L Midgelow,
>> Chair, Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education (SCODHE)
>> 
>> 
>> Vida L. Midgelow, PhD.
>> Reader, Dance and Performance
>> Chair, Standing Conference on Dance in Higher Education
>> Director, The Choreographic Lab
>> School of the Arts
>> University of Northampton
>> Avenue Campus
>> St. George's Avenue
>> Northampton
>> NN2 6JD
>> email: [log in to unmask]
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dance in higher education. on behalf of Jane
>> Sent: Wed 12/8/2010 19:19
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: cuts
>> 
>> 
>> For those of you on the SCUDD list you will see possible ideas for a  draft
>> letter against the introduction of higher fees for University education. I
>> know the time is almost too short with the vote upon us but I hope that
>> someone on the SCHODE exec could also draft and send a letter to Willetts et
>> al.
>> I believe it is vital that the dance community develop a political voice and
>> speak out when the opportunity arises.
>> 
>> Below is the suggested letter posted to SCUDD from Cathy Turner at Exeter
>> (with apologies and thanks to Cathy)
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Jane
>> 
>> --
>> Dr Jane Bacon
>> Divisional Leader and Reader, Performance Studies
>> The School of the Arts
>> The University of Northampton
>> St Georges Ave
>> Northampton
>> NN2 6JD
>> 
>> 01604 893296
>> 
>> Hi all  not on SCUDD exec, but this is a kind of draft put together from
>> the Warwick one and extracts of my own letter to MP and Willetts earlier. It
>> may be blundering, but feel free to use any of it as material towards your
>> own or a general letter.
>> 
>> Hope you like the Shakespearean reference at the end.
>> 
>> Cathy
>> 
>> We, academic members of Drama departments across the UK, express our deep
>> concern at the undue haste with which the government is proceeding to enact
>> legislation to change the principle upon which the funding of higher
>> education is based. We believe that these proposed
>> changes have the potential to inflict irreversible damage upon our culture
>> of education, learning and research. We strongly support the
>> call for a Public Commission of Inquiry on the future of Higher Education in
>> England and Wales.
>> 
>> 
>> Savings made by cutting public spending on higher education will not
>> ultimately be justified either economically or socially. Graduates
>> contribute to the economy and, as importantly, they also contribute to
>> society in a wider, less quantifiable sense. This whole process suggests a
>> crassly materialist and short-termist view of what education can offer,
>> without recognizing the ways in which lives and communities are transformed
>> by the encouragement of curiosity, imagination and exploration.
>> 
>> Insisting that education is a private benefit only, to be funded by the
>> individual towards financial superiority, is to grossly underestimate
>> education as a social good.
>> 
>> Opening the Universities up to market forces will also have unpredictable,
>> but quite possibly devastating consequences, with institutions failing or
>> closing and volatility in the system that is not conducive to the longer
>> time-frames of investigative research, nor to the gradual development of
>> innovative pedagogy.
>> 
>> Drama, as a subject, may be particularly vulnerable in this Obrave new
>> world¹, since it is unlikely to attract students who feel that it is
>> essential to equip themselves for a high-earning career. This, despite the
>> fact that many Drama students are attractive to employers, precisely because
>> their less quantifiable Otransferable skills¹ make them good employees and
>> colleagues. This, also despite the fact that the contributions of this
>> diverse and expanding subject area bring both economic rewards and just as
>> importantly, social benefit, and intellectual, imaginative and indeed
>> political inspiration to many.
>> 
>> Yours sincerely,
>> 
>> etc
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> This e-mail is private and may be confidential and is for the intended
>> recipient only.  If you are not the intended recipient you are strictly
>> prohibited from using, printing, copying, distributing or disseminating this
>> e-mail or any information contained in it.
>> 
>> 
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>> warranty is given that this E-mail and any attachments are virus free.  You
>> should undertake your own virus checking.  The right to monitor E-mail
>> communications through our networks is reserved by us.
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>> 
>> 
>> 
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> ------------------------------
> 
> Date:    Thu, 9 Dec 2010 12:14:12 -0000
> From:    Jo Breslin <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: cuts
> 
> Dear Vida et al,
> I hope this now reaches the ears of deaf politicians who are bent on driving through policies that will for certain have major consequences for Dance in HE. 
> 
> Best
> Jo
> 
> J.V.Breslin
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dance in higher education. on behalf of Midgelow Vida
> Sent: Wed 12/8/2010 11:36 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: cuts
> 
> Dear Jane, yes these are clearly important matters.
> 
> See a (proposed) letter to be sent tomorrow first thing (with thanks to Tom at Scudd et al)
> 
> 
> 
> Open Letter from the Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education
> 
> The Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education represents lecturers and researchers of Dance across the UK.
> 
> We write to voice our extreme disappointment at the governments proposals for the funding of Higher Education Institutions. We are particularly concerned that the withdrawal of public funding for the Arts will put our subject at extreme risk and lead to a lack of cultural leaders, creative thinkers and those able to change lives through their creative vision, enriching us all in invaluable ways.
> 
> The effect of these proposals in the creative sector will be hugh and very negative. Further, as with other subjects in the arts, notably the Standing Conference of Drama Departments, we suggest to you that the assumption that stem subjects are of greater value (economic or otherwise) lacks a clear basis in evidence, and fails to pay attention to the impact of the arts across all sectors. Indeed as the recent report by Universities UK states: 'There can be no doubt the UK's creative economy is a jewel in our crown - a national success story and an area which the UK can rightly claim to be a global leader' (Crossick, preface). To place the dance and arts generally at risk is therefore very short sighted, for creatives and the creative industries will be crucial to the economic, as well as social and personal, well being of the UK into the future.
> 
> We most strongly urge you to reconsider.
> 
> 
> Dr Vida L Midgelow,
> Chair, Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education (SCODHE)
> 
> 
> Vida L. Midgelow, PhD.
> Reader, Dance and Performance
> Chair, Standing Conference on Dance in Higher Education
> Director, The Choreographic Lab
> School of the Arts
> University of Northampton
> Avenue Campus
> St. George's Avenue
> Northampton
> NN2 6JD
> email: [log in to unmask]
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dance in higher education. on behalf of Jane
> Sent: Wed 12/8/2010 19:19
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: cuts
> 
> 
> For those of you on the SCUDD list you will see possible ideas for a  draft
> letter against the introduction of higher fees for University education. I
> know the time is almost too short with the vote upon us but I hope that
> someone on the SCHODE exec could also draft and send a letter to Willetts et
> al.
> I believe it is vital that the dance community develop a political voice and
> speak out when the opportunity arises.
> 
> Below is the suggested letter posted to SCUDD from Cathy Turner at Exeter
> (with apologies and thanks to Cathy)
> 
> Thanks
> Jane
> 
> --
> Dr Jane Bacon
> Divisional Leader and Reader, Performance Studies
> The School of the Arts
> The University of Northampton
> St Georges Ave
> Northampton
> NN2 6JD
> 
> 01604 893296
> 
> Hi all  not on SCUDD exec, but this is a kind of draft put together from
> the Warwick one and extracts of my own letter to MP and Willetts earlier. It
> may be blundering, but feel free to use any of it as material towards your
> own or a general letter.
> 
> Hope you like the Shakespearean reference at the end.
> 
> Cathy
> 
> We, academic members of Drama departments across the UK, express our deep
> concern at the undue haste with which the government is proceeding to enact
> legislation to change the principle upon which the funding of higher
> education is based. We believe that these proposed
> changes have the potential to inflict irreversible damage upon our culture
> of education, learning and research. We strongly support the
> call for a Public Commission of Inquiry on the future of Higher Education in
> England and Wales.
> 
> 
> Savings made by cutting public spending on higher education will not
> ultimately be justified either economically or socially. Graduates
> contribute to the economy and, as importantly, they also contribute to
> society in a wider, less quantifiable sense. This whole process suggests a
> crassly materialist and short-termist view of what education can offer,
> without recognizing the ways in which lives and communities are transformed
> by the encouragement of curiosity, imagination and exploration.
> 
> Insisting that education is a private benefit only, to be funded by the
> individual towards financial superiority, is to grossly underestimate
> education as a social good.
> 
> Opening the Universities up to market forces will also have unpredictable,
> but quite possibly devastating consequences, with institutions failing or
> closing and volatility in the system that is not conducive to the longer
> time-frames of investigative research, nor to the gradual development of
> innovative pedagogy.
> 
> Drama, as a subject, may be particularly vulnerable in this Obrave new
> world¹, since it is unlikely to attract students who feel that it is
> essential to equip themselves for a high-earning career. This, despite the
> fact that many Drama students are attractive to employers, precisely because
> their less quantifiable Otransferable skills¹ make them good employees and
> colleagues. This, also despite the fact that the contributions of this
> diverse and expanding subject area bring both economic rewards and just as
> importantly, social benefit, and intellectual, imaginative and indeed
> political inspiration to many.
> 
> Yours sincerely,
> 
> etc
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> ------------------------------
> 
> Date:    Thu, 9 Dec 2010 07:14:20 -0500
> From:    Maria Koripas <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: cuts
> 
> Just wanted to add my appreciation and support for the letter.
> Thank you!
> 
> 
> 
> Maria Koripas
> 
> Course Director
> Dance Programme
> 
> Associate Lecturer & Award Co-ordinator
> Performance: Opera, Dance, Acting
> 
> School of Arts
> Department of Media and Cultural Studies
> Centre for Media, Culture and Creative Practice
> 
> Birkbeck
> University of London
> 
> www.bbk.ac.uk/culture
> Tel: 07957 388999
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Midgelow Vida <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 23:36
> Subject: Re: cuts
> 
> 
> Dear Jane, yes these are clearly important matters.
> 
> See a (proposed) letter to be sent tomorrow first thing (with thanks to Tom at Scudd et al)
> 
> 
> 
> Open Letter from the Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education
> 
> The Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education represents lecturers and researchers of Dance across the UK.
> 
> We write to voice our extreme disappointment at the governments proposals for the funding of Higher Education Institutions. We are particularly concerned that the withdrawal of public funding for the Arts will put our subject at extreme risk and lead to a lack of cultural leaders, creative thinkers and those able to change lives through their creative vision, enriching us all in invaluable ways.
> 
> The effect of these proposals in the creative sector will be hugh and very negative. Further, as with other subjects in the arts, notably the Standing Conference of Drama Departments, we suggest to you that the assumption that stem subjects are of greater value (economic or otherwise) lacks a clear basis in evidence, and fails to pay attention to the impact of the arts across all sectors. Indeed as the recent report by Universities UK states: 'There can be no doubt the UK's creative economy is a jewel in our crown - a national success story and an area which the UK can rightly claim to be a global leader' (Crossick, preface). To place the dance and arts generally at risk is therefore very short sighted, for creatives and the creative industries will be crucial to the economic, as well as social and personal, well being of the UK into the future.
> 
> We most strongly urge you to reconsider.
> 
> 
> Dr Vida L Midgelow,
> Chair, Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education (SCODHE)
> 
> 
> Vida L. Midgelow, PhD.
> Reader, Dance and Performance
> Chair, Standing Conference on Dance in Higher Education
> Director, The Choreographic Lab
> School of the Arts
> University of Northampton
> Avenue Campus
> St. George's Avenue
> Northampton
> NN2 6JD
> email: [log in to unmask]
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dance in higher education. on behalf of Jane
> Sent: Wed 12/8/2010 19:19
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: cuts
> 
> 
> For those of you on the SCUDD list you will see possible ideas for a  draft
> letter against the introduction of higher fees for University education. I
> know the time is almost too short with the vote upon us but I hope that
> someone on the SCHODE exec could also draft and send a letter to Willetts et
> al.
> I believe it is vital that the dance community develop a political voice and
> speak out when the opportunity arises.
> 
> Below is the suggested letter posted to SCUDD from Cathy Turner at Exeter
> (with apologies and thanks to Cathy)
> 
> Thanks
> Jane
> 
> --
> Dr Jane Bacon
> Divisional Leader and Reader, Performance Studies
> The School of the Arts
> The University of Northampton
> St Georges Ave
> Northampton
> NN2 6JD
> 
> 01604 893296
> 
> Hi all  not on SCUDD exec, but this is a kind of draft put together from
> the Warwick one and extracts of my own letter to MP and Willetts earlier. It
> may be blundering, but feel free to use any of it as material towards your
> own or a general letter.
> 
> Hope you like the Shakespearean reference at the end.
> 
> Cathy
> 
> We, academic members of Drama departments across the UK, express our deep
> concern at the undue haste with which the government is proceeding to enact
> legislation to change the principle upon which the funding of higher
> education is based. We believe that these proposed
> changes have the potential to inflict irreversible damage upon our culture
> of education, learning and research. We strongly support the
> call for a Public Commission of Inquiry on the future of Higher Education in
> England and Wales.
> 
> 
> Savings made by cutting public spending on higher education will not
> ultimately be justified either economically or socially. Graduates
> contribute to the economy and, as importantly, they also contribute to
> society in a wider, less quantifiable sense. This whole process suggests a
> crassly materialist and short-termist view of what education can offer,
> without recognizing the ways in which lives and communities are transformed
> by the encouragement of curiosity, imagination and exploration.
> 
> Insisting that education is a private benefit only, to be funded by the
> individual towards financial superiority, is to grossly underestimate
> education as a social good.
> 
> Opening the Universities up to market forces will also have unpredictable,
> but quite possibly devastating consequences, with institutions failing or
> closing and volatility in the system that is not conducive to the longer
> time-frames of investigative research, nor to the gradual development of
> innovative pedagogy.
> 
> Drama, as a subject, may be particularly vulnerable in this Obrave new
> world¹, since it is unlikely to attract students who feel that it is
> essential to equip themselves for a high-earning career. This, despite the
> fact that many Drama students are attractive to employers, precisely because
> their less quantifiable Otransferable skills¹ make them good employees and
> colleagues. This, also despite the fact that the contributions of this
> diverse and expanding subject area bring both economic rewards and just as
> importantly, social benefit, and intellectual, imaginative and indeed
> political inspiration to many.
> 
> Yours sincerely,
> 
> etc
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Date:    Thu, 9 Dec 2010 12:26:36 -0000
> From:    Luis DeAbreu <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: cuts
> 
> I too want to add my appreciation and support for the letter.
> Thank you!
> Luis De Abreu
> Bird College 
> Luis De Abreu
> Blackberry Phone 
> 07956 676 034 
> Bird College
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dance in higher education. <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thu Dec 09 12:14:20 2010
> Subject: Re: cuts
> 
> Just wanted to add my appreciation and support for the letter. 
> Thank you!
> 
> Maria Koripas
> 
> Course Director
> Dance Programme
> 
> Associate Lecturer & Award Co-ordinator
> Performance: Opera, Dance, Acting
> 
> School of Arts
> Department of Media and Cultural Studies
> Centre for Media, Culture and Creative Practice
> 
> Birkbeck
> University of London
> 
> www.bbk.ac.uk/culture
> Tel: 07957 388999
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Midgelow Vida <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 23:36
> Subject: Re: cuts
> 
> 
> Dear Jane, yes these are clearly important matters.
> 
> See a (proposed) letter to be sent tomorrow first thing (with thanks to Tom at Scudd et al)
> 
> 
> 
> Open Letter from the Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education
> 
> The Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education represents lecturers and researchers of Dance across the UK.
> 
> We write to voice our extreme disappointment at the governments proposals for the funding of Higher Education Institutions. We are particularly concerned that the withdrawal of public funding for the Arts will put our subject at extreme risk and lead to a lack of cultural leaders, creative thinkers and those able to change lives through their creative vision, enriching us all in invaluable ways.
> 
> The effect of these proposals in the creative sector will be hugh and very negative. Further, as with other subjects in the arts, notably the Standing Conference of Drama Departments, we suggest to you that the assumption that stem subjects are of greater value (economic or otherwise) lacks a clear basis in evidence, and fails to pay attention to the impact of the arts across all sectors. Indeed as the recent report by Universities UK states: 'There can be no doubt the UK's creative economy is a jewel in our crown - a national success story and an area which the UK can rightly claim to be a global leader' (Crossick, preface). To place the dance and arts generally at risk is therefore very short sighted, for creatives and the creative industries will be crucial to the economic, as well as social and personal, well being of the UK into the future.
> 
> We most strongly urge you to reconsider.
> 
> 
> Dr Vida L Midgelow,
> Chair, Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education (SCODHE)
> 
> 
> Vida L. Midgelow, PhD.
> Reader, Dance and Performance
> Chair, Standing Conference on Dance in Higher Education
> Director, The Choreographic Lab
> School of the Arts
> University of Northampton
> Avenue Campus
> St. George's Avenue
> Northampton
> NN2 6JD
> email: [log in to unmask]
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dance in higher education. on behalf of Jane
> Sent: Wed 12/8/2010 19:19
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: cuts
> 
> 
> For those of you on the SCUDD list you will see possible ideas for a  draft
> letter against the introduction of higher fees for University education. I
> know the time is almost too short with the vote upon us but I hope that
> someone on the SCHODE exec could also draft and send a letter to Willetts et
> al.
> I believe it is vital that the dance community develop a political voice and
> speak out when the opportunity arises.
> 
> Below is the suggested letter posted to SCUDD from Cathy Turner at Exeter
> (with apologies and thanks to Cathy)
> 
> Thanks
> Jane
> 
> --
> Dr Jane Bacon
> Divisional Leader and Reader, Performance Studies
> The School of the Arts
> The University of Northampton
> St Georges Ave
> Northampton
> NN2 6JD
> 
> 01604 893296
> 
> Hi all  not on SCUDD exec, but this is a kind of draft put together from
> the Warwick one and extracts of my own letter to MP and Willetts earlier. It
> may be blundering, but feel free to use any of it as material towards your
> own or a general letter.
> 
> Hope you like the Shakespearean reference at the end.
> 
> Cathy
> 
> We, academic members of Drama departments across the UK, express our deep
> concern at the undue haste with which the government is proceeding to enact
> legislation to change the principle upon which the funding of higher
> education is based. We believe that these proposed
> changes have the potential to inflict irreversible damage upon our culture
> of education, learning and research. We strongly support the
> call for a Public Commission of Inquiry on the future of Higher Education in
> England and Wales.
> 
> 
> Savings made by cutting public spending on higher education will not
> ultimately be justified either economically or socially. Graduates
> contribute to the economy and, as importantly, they also contribute to
> society in a wider, less quantifiable sense. This whole process suggests a
> crassly materialist and short-termist view of what education can offer,
> without recognizing the ways in which lives and communities are transformed
> by the encouragement of curiosity, imagination and exploration.
> 
> Insisting that education is a private benefit only, to be funded by the
> individual towards financial superiority, is to grossly underestimate
> education as a social good.
> 
> Opening the Universities up to market forces will also have unpredictable,
> but quite possibly devastating consequences, with institutions failing or
> closing and volatility in the system that is not conducive to the longer
> time-frames of investigative research, nor to the gradual development of
> innovative pedagogy.
> 
> Drama, as a subject, may be particularly vulnerable in this Obrave new
> world¹, since it is unlikely to attract students who feel that it is
> essential to equip themselves for a high-earning career. This, despite the
> fact that many Drama students are attractive to employers, precisely because
> their less quantifiable Otransferable skills¹ make them good employees and
> colleagues. This, also despite the fact that the contributions of this
> diverse and expanding subject area bring both economic rewards and just as
> importantly, social benefit, and intellectual, imaginative and indeed
> political inspiration to many.
> 
> Yours sincerely,
> 
> etc
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> 
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> 
> 
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> ------------------------------
> 
> Date:    Thu, 9 Dec 2010 12:28:11 -0000
> From:    Sarah Whatley <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: cuts
> 
> Dear Vida, Jane and all
> 
> 
> 
> I am very glad to see this letter and it has my full support.  Thank you for acting so quickly for us all in dance.
> 
> 
> 
> Warm wishes
> 
> Sarah
> 
> 
> 
> From: Dance in higher education. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Midgelow Vida
> Sent: 08 December 2010 23:37
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: cuts
> 
> 
> 
> Dear Jane, yes these are clearly important matters.
> 
> See a (proposed) letter to be sent tomorrow first thing (with thanks to Tom at Scudd et al)
> 
> 
> 
> Open Letter from the Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education
> 
> The Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education represents lecturers and researchers of Dance across the UK.
> 
> We write to voice our extreme disappointment at the governments proposals for the funding of Higher Education Institutions. We are particularly concerned that the withdrawal of public funding for the Arts will put our subject at extreme risk and lead to a lack of cultural leaders, creative thinkers and those able to change lives through their creative vision, enriching us all in invaluable ways.
> 
> The effect of these proposals in the creative sector will be hugh and very negative. Further, as with other subjects in the arts, notably the Standing Conference of Drama Departments, we suggest to you that the assumption that stem subjects are of greater value (economic or otherwise) lacks a clear basis in evidence, and fails to pay attention to the impact of the arts across all sectors. Indeed as the recent report by Universities UK states: 'There can be no doubt the UK's creative economy is a jewel in our crown - a national success story and an area which the UK can rightly claim to be a global leader' (Crossick, preface). To place the dance and arts generally at risk is therefore very short sighted, for creatives and the creative industries will be crucial to the economic, as well as social and personal, well being of the UK into the future.
> 
> We most strongly urge you to reconsider.
> 
> 
> Dr Vida L Midgelow,
> Chair, Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education (SCODHE)
> 
> 
> Vida L. Midgelow, PhD.
> Reader, Dance and Performance
> Chair, Standing Conference on Dance in Higher Education
> Director, The Choreographic Lab
> School of the Arts
> University of Northampton
> Avenue Campus
> St. George's Avenue
> Northampton
> NN2 6JD
> email: [log in to unmask]
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dance in higher education. on behalf of Jane
> Sent: Wed 12/8/2010 19:19
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: cuts
> 
> 
> For those of you on the SCUDD list you will see possible ideas for a  draft
> letter against the introduction of higher fees for University education. I
> know the time is almost too short with the vote upon us but I hope that
> someone on the SCHODE exec could also draft and send a letter to Willetts et
> al.
> I believe it is vital that the dance community develop a political voice and
> speak out when the opportunity arises.
> 
> Below is the suggested letter posted to SCUDD from Cathy Turner at Exeter
> (with apologies and thanks to Cathy)
> 
> Thanks
> Jane
> 
> --
> Dr Jane Bacon
> Divisional Leader and Reader, Performance Studies
> The School of the Arts
> The University of Northampton
> St Georges Ave
> Northampton
> NN2 6JD
> 
> 01604 893296
> 
> Hi all  not on SCUDD exec, but this is a kind of draft put together from
> the Warwick one and extracts of my own letter to MP and Willetts earlier. It
> may be blundering, but feel free to use any of it as material towards your
> own or a general letter.
> 
> Hope you like the Shakespearean reference at the end.
> 
> Cathy
> 
> We, academic members of Drama departments across the UK, express our deep
> concern at the undue haste with which the government is proceeding to enact
> legislation to change the principle upon which the funding of higher
> education is based. We believe that these proposed
> changes have the potential to inflict irreversible damage upon our culture
> of education, learning and research. We strongly support the
> call for a Public Commission of Inquiry on the future of Higher Education in
> England and Wales.
> 
> 
> Savings made by cutting public spending on higher education will not
> ultimately be justified either economically or socially. Graduates
> contribute to the economy and, as importantly, they also contribute to
> society in a wider, less quantifiable sense. This whole process suggests a
> crassly materialist and short-termist view of what education can offer,
> without recognizing the ways in which lives and communities are transformed
> by the encouragement of curiosity, imagination and exploration.
> 
> Insisting that education is a private benefit only, to be funded by the
> individual towards financial superiority, is to grossly underestimate
> education as a social good.
> 
> Opening the Universities up to market forces will also have unpredictable,
> but quite possibly devastating consequences, with institutions failing or
> closing and volatility in the system that is not conducive to the longer
> time-frames of investigative research, nor to the gradual development of
> innovative pedagogy.
> 
> Drama, as a subject, may be particularly vulnerable in this Obrave new
> world¹, since it is unlikely to attract students who feel that it is
> essential to equip themselves for a high-earning career. This, despite the
> fact that many Drama students are attractive to employers, precisely because
> their less quantifiable Otransferable skills¹ make them good employees and
> colleagues. This, also despite the fact that the contributions of this
> diverse and expanding subject area bring both economic rewards and just as
> importantly, social benefit, and intellectual, imaginative and indeed
> political inspiration to many.
> 
> Yours sincerely,
> 
> etc
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> Date:    Thu, 9 Dec 2010 04:35:10 -0800
> From:    SARA REED <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: cuts
> 
>  I would also like to add my appreciation and support.
> 
> Very best wishes
> 
> Sara 
> 
> Sara Reed
> Consultant: Dance Education and Training
> Harleston Manor
> Kingsbridge
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> --- On Thu, 9/12/10, Maria Koripas <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> From: Maria Koripas <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: cuts
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Thursday, 9 December, 2010, 12:14
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> Just wanted to add my appreciation and support for the letter.
> Thank you!
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> Maria Koripas
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> From: Midgelow Vida <[log in to unmask]>
> 
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 
> Sent: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 23:36
> 
> Subject: Re: cuts
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Dear Jane, yes these are clearly important matters.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> See a (proposed) letter to be sent tomorrow first thing (with thanks to Tom at Scudd et al)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Open Letter from the Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> The Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education represents lecturers and researchers of Dance across the UK.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> We write to voice our extreme disappointment at the governments proposals for the funding of Higher Education Institutions. We are particularly concerned that the withdrawal of public funding for the Arts will put our subject at extreme risk and lead to a lack of cultural leaders, creative thinkers and those able to change lives through their creative vision, enriching us all in invaluable ways.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> The effect of these proposals in the creative sector will be hugh and very negative. Further, as with other subjects in the arts, notably the Standing Conference of Drama Departments, we suggest to you that the assumption that stem subjects are of greater value (economic or otherwise) lacks a clear basis in evidence, and fails to pay attention to the impact of the arts across all sectors. Indeed as the recent report by Universities UK states: 'There can be no doubt the UK's creative economy is a jewel in our crown - a national success story and an area which the UK can rightly claim to be a global leader' (Crossick, preface). To place the dance and arts generally at risk is therefore very short sighted, for creatives and the creative industries will be crucial to the economic, as well as social and personal, well being of the UK into the future.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> We most strongly urge you to reconsider.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Dr Vida L Midgelow,
> 
> 
> Chair, Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education (SCODHE)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Vida L. Midgelow, PhD.
> 
> 
> Reader, Dance and Performance
> 
> 
> Chair, Standing Conference on Dance in Higher Education
> 
> 
> Director, The Choreographic Lab
> 
> 
> School of the Arts
> 
> 
> University of Northampton
> 
> 
> Avenue Campus
> 
> 
> St. George's Avenue
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> Northampton
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> 
> From: Dance in higher education. on behalf of Jane
> 
> 
> Sent: Wed 12/8/2010 19:19
> 
> 
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 
> 
> Subject: cuts
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> For those of you on the SCUDD list you will see possible ideas for a  draft
> 
> 
> letter against the introduction of higher fees for University education. I
> 
> 
> know the time is almost too short with the vote upon us but I hope that
> 
> 
> someone on the SCHODE exec could also draft and send a letter to Willetts et
> 
> 
> al.
> 
> 
> I believe it is vital that the dance community develop a political voice and
> 
> 
> speak out when the opportunity arises.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Below is the suggested letter posted to SCUDD from Cathy Turner at Exeter
> 
> 
> (with apologies and thanks to Cathy)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Jane
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --
> 
> 
> Dr Jane Bacon
> 
> 
> Divisional Leader and Reader, Performance Studies
> 
> 
> The School of the Arts
> 
> 
> The University of Northampton
> 
> 
> St Georges Ave
> 
> 
> Northampton
> 
> 
> NN2 6JD
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 01604 893296
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi all  not on SCUDD exec, but this is a kind of draft put together from
> 
> 
> the Warwick one and extracts of my own letter to MP and Willetts earlier. It
> 
> 
> may be blundering, but feel free to use any of it as material towards your
> 
> 
> own or a general letter.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hope you like the Shakespearean reference at the end.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Cathy
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> We, academic members of Drama departments across the UK, express our deep
> 
> 
> concern at the undue haste with which the government is proceeding to enact
> 
> 
> legislation to change the principle upon which the funding of higher
> 
> 
> education is based. We believe that these proposed
> 
> 
> changes have the potential to inflict irreversible damage upon our culture
> 
> 
> of education, learning and research. We strongly support the
> 
> 
> call for a Public Commission of Inquiry on the future of Higher Education in
> 
> 
> England and Wales.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Savings made by cutting public spending on higher education will not
> 
> 
> ultimately be justified either economically or socially. Graduates
> 
> 
> contribute to the economy and, as importantly, they also contribute to
> 
> 
> society in a wider, less quantifiable sense. This whole process suggests a
> 
> 
> crassly materialist and short-termist view of what education can offer,
> 
> 
> without recognizing the ways in which lives and communities are transformed
> 
> 
> by the encouragement of curiosity, imagination and exploration.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Insisting that education is a private benefit only, to be funded by the
> 
> 
> individual towards financial superiority, is to grossly underestimate
> 
> 
> education as a social good.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Opening the Universities up to market forces will also have unpredictable,
> 
> 
> but quite possibly devastating consequences, with institutions failing or
> 
> 
> closing and volatility in the system that is not conducive to the longer
> 
> 
> time-frames of investigative research, nor to the gradual development of
> 
> 
> innovative pedagogy.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Drama, as a subject, may be particularly vulnerable in this Obrave new
> 
> 
> world¹, since it is unlikely to attract students who feel that it is
> 
> 
> essential to equip themselves for a high-earning career. This, despite the
> 
> 
> fact that many Drama students are attractive to employers, precisely because
> 
> 
> their less quantifiable Otransferable skills¹ make them good employees and
> 
> 
> colleagues. This, also despite the fact that the contributions of this
> 
> 
> diverse and expanding subject area bring both economic rewards and just as
> 
> 
> importantly, social benefit, and intellectual, imaginative and indeed
> 
> 
> political inspiration to many.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Yours sincerely,
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> etc
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> 
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> Date:    Thu, 9 Dec 2010 12:37:40 +0000
> From:    Rachel Duerden <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: cuts
> 
> And indeed many thanks and full support from us at MMU - 
> 
> Rachel
> 
> Dr Rachel Duerden
> Co-Programme Leader, Dance
> Department of Contemporary Arts
> Manchester Metropolitan University
> MMU Cheshire
> Crewe Green Road
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> 
>>>> Sarah Whatley <[log in to unmask]> 12/9/2010 12:28 pm >>>
> 
> Dear Vida, Jane and all
> 
> I am very glad to see this letter and it has my full support.  Thank you for acting so quickly for us all in dance.
> 
> Warm wishes
> Sarah
> 
> 
> From:Dance in higher education. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Midgelow Vida
> Sent: 08 December 2010 23:37
> To: [log in to unmask] 
> Subject: Re: cuts
> 
> 
> Dear Jane, yes these are clearly important matters.
> 
> See a (proposed) letter to be sent tomorrow first thing (with thanks to Tom at Scudd et al)
> 
> 
> 
> Open Letter from the Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education
> 
> The Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education represents lecturers and researchers of Dance across the UK.
> 
> We write to voice our extreme disappointment at the governments proposals for the funding of Higher Education Institutions. We
> are particularly concerned that the withdrawal of public funding for the Arts will put our subject at extreme risk and lead to a
> lack of cultural leaders, creative thinkers and those able to change lives through their creative vision, enriching us all in
> invaluable ways.
> 
> The effect of these proposals in the creative sector will be hugh and very negative. Further, as with other subjects in the arts,
> notably the Standing Conference of Drama Departments, we suggest to you that the assumption that stem subjects are of greater
> value (economic or otherwise) lacks a clear basis in evidence, and fails to pay attention to the impact of the arts across all
> sectors. Indeed as the recent report by Universities UK states: 'There can be no doubt the UK's creative economy is a jewel in our
> crown - a national success story and an area which the UK can rightly claim to be a global leader' (Crossick, preface). To place
> the dance and arts generally at risk is therefore very short sighted, for creatives and the creative industries will be crucial to
> the economic, as well as social and personal, well being of the UK into the future.
> 
> We most strongly urge you to reconsider.
> 
> 
> Dr Vida L Midgelow,
> Chair, Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education (SCODHE)
> 
> 
> Vida L. Midgelow, PhD.
> Reader, Dance and Performance
> Chair, Standing Conference on Dance in Higher Education
> Director, The Choreographic Lab
> School of the Arts
> University of Northampton
> Avenue Campus
> St. George's Avenue
> Northampton
> NN2 6JD
> email: [log in to unmask] 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dance in higher education. on behalf of Jane
> Sent: Wed 12/8/2010 19:19
> To: [log in to unmask] 
> Subject: cuts
> 
> 
> For those of you on the SCUDD list you will see possible ideas for a  draft
> letter against the introduction of higher fees for University education. I
> know the time is almost too short with the vote upon us but I hope that
> someone on the SCHODE exec could also draft and send a letter to Willetts et
> al.
> I believe it is vital that the dance community develop a political voice and
> speak out when the opportunity arises.
> 
> Below is the suggested letter posted to SCUDD from Cathy Turner at Exeter
> (with apologies and thanks to Cathy)
> 
> Thanks
> Jane
> 
> --
> Dr Jane Bacon
> Divisional Leader and Reader, Performance Studies
> The School of the Arts
> The University of Northampton
> St Georges Ave
> Northampton
> NN2 6JD
> 
> 01604 893296
> 
> Hi all  not on SCUDD exec, but this is a kind of draft put together from
> the Warwick one and extracts of my own letter to MP and Willetts earlier. It
> may be blundering, but feel free to use any of it as material towards your
> own or a general letter.
> 
> Hope you like the Shakespearean reference at the end.
> 
> Cathy
> 
> We, academic members of Drama departments across the UK, express our deep
> concern at the undue haste with which the government is proceeding to enact
> legislation to change the principle upon which the funding of higher
> education is based. We believe that these proposed
> changes have the potential to inflict irreversible damage upon our culture
> of education, learning and research. We strongly support the
> call for a Public Commission of Inquiry on the future of Higher Education in
> England and Wales.
> 
> 
> Savings made by cutting public spending on higher education will not
> ultimately be justified either economically or socially. Graduates
> contribute to the economy and, as importantly, they also contribute to
> society in a wider, less quantifiable sense. This whole process suggests a
> crassly materialist and short-termist view of what education can offer,
> without recognizing the ways in which lives and communities are transformed
> by the encouragement of curiosity, imagination and exploration.
> 
> Insisting that education is a private benefit only, to be funded by the
> individual towards financial superiority, is to grossly underestimate
> education as a social good.
> 
> Opening the Universities up to market forces will also have unpredictable,
> but quite possibly devastating consequences, with institutions failing or
> closing and volatility in the system that is not conducive to the longer
> time-frames of investigative research, nor to the gradual development of
> innovative pedagogy.
> 
> Drama, as a subject, may be particularly vulnerable in this Obrave new
> world¹, since it is unlikely to attract students who feel that it is
> essential to equip themselves for a high-earning career. This, despite the
> fact that many Drama students are attractive to employers, precisely because
> their less quantifiable Otransferable skills¹ make them good employees and
> colleagues. This, also despite the fact that the contributions of this
> diverse and expanding subject area bring both economic rewards and just as
> importantly, social benefit, and intellectual, imaginative and indeed
> political inspiration to many.
> 
> Yours sincerely,
> 
> etc
> 
> 
> 
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> ------------------------------
> 
> Date:    Thu, 9 Dec 2010 12:41:56 -0000
> From:    Theresa Buckland <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: cuts
> 
> Well done Vida and Jane, et al for actioning this! - I've no doubt you have the whole dance community in HE behind you - thank you so much for your initiative! 
> 
> warm wishes
> 
> Tess
> 
> 
> 
> Professor Theresa Buckland
> Professor of Performing Arts
> Department of Performance and Digital Arts
> Faculty of Humanities
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> ________________________________
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> From: Dance in higher education. on behalf of Rachel Duerden
> Sent: Thu 09/12/2010 12:37
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: cuts
> 
> 
> And indeed many thanks and full support from us at MMU - 
> 
> Rachel
> 
> Dr Rachel Duerden
> Co-Programme Leader, Dance
> Department of Contemporary Arts
> Manchester Metropolitan University
> MMU Cheshire
> Crewe Green Road
> Crewe
> Cheshire CW1 5DU
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> 
>>>> Sarah Whatley <[log in to unmask]> 12/9/2010 12:28 pm >>>
> 
> 
> Dear Vida, Jane and all
> 
> 
> 
> I am very glad to see this letter and it has my full support.  Thank you for acting so quickly for us all in dance.
> 
> 
> 
> Warm wishes
> 
> Sarah
> 
> 
> 
> From: Dance in higher education. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Midgelow Vida
> Sent: 08 December 2010 23:37
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: cuts
> 
> 
> 
> Dear Jane, yes these are clearly important matters.
> 
> See a (proposed) letter to be sent tomorrow first thing (with thanks to Tom at Scudd et al)
> 
> 
> 
> Open Letter from the Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education
> 
> The Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education represents lecturers and researchers of Dance across the UK.
> 
> We write to voice our extreme disappointment at the governments proposals for the funding of Higher Education Institutions. We are particularly concerned that the withdrawal of public funding for the Arts will put our subject at extreme risk and lead to a lack of cultural leaders, creative thinkers and those able to change lives through their creative vision, enriching us all in invaluable ways.
> 
> The effect of these proposals in the creative sector will be hugh and very negative. Further, as with other subjects in the arts, notably the Standing Conference of Drama Departments, we suggest to you that the assumption that stem subjects are of greater value (economic or otherwise) lacks a clear basis in evidence, and fails to pay attention to the impact of the arts across all sectors. Indeed as the recent report by Universities UK states: 'There can be no doubt the UK's creative economy is a jewel in our crown - a national success story and an area which the UK can rightly claim to be a global leader' (Crossick, preface). To place the dance and arts generally at risk is therefore very short sighted, for creatives and the creative industries will be crucial to the economic, as well as social and personal, well being of the UK into the future.
> 
> We most strongly urge you to reconsider.
> 
> 
> Dr Vida L Midgelow,
> Chair, Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education (SCODHE)
> 
> 
> Vida L. Midgelow, PhD.
> Reader, Dance and Performance
> Chair, Standing Conference on Dance in Higher Education
> Director, The Choreographic Lab
> School of the Arts
> University of Northampton
> Avenue Campus
> St. George's Avenue
> Northampton
> NN2 6JD
> email: [log in to unmask]
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dance in higher education. on behalf of Jane
> Sent: Wed 12/8/2010 19:19
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: cuts
> 
> 
> For those of you on the SCUDD list you will see possible ideas for a  draft
> letter against the introduction of higher fees for University education. I
> know the time is almost too short with the vote upon us but I hope that
> someone on the SCHODE exec could also draft and send a letter to Willetts et
> al.
> I believe it is vital that the dance community develop a political voice and
> speak out when the opportunity arises.
> 
> Below is the suggested letter posted to SCUDD from Cathy Turner at Exeter
> (with apologies and thanks to Cathy)
> 
> Thanks
> Jane
> 
> --
> Dr Jane Bacon
> Divisional Leader and Reader, Performance Studies
> The School of the Arts
> The University of Northampton
> St Georges Ave
> Northampton
> NN2 6JD
> 
> 01604 893296
> 
> Hi all  not on SCUDD exec, but this is a kind of draft put together from
> the Warwick one and extracts of my own letter to MP and Willetts earlier. It
> may be blundering, but feel free to use any of it as material towards your
> own or a general letter.
> 
> Hope you like the Shakespearean reference at the end.
> 
> Cathy
> 
> We, academic members of Drama departments across the UK, express our deep
> concern at the undue haste with which the government is proceeding to enact
> legislation to change the principle upon which the funding of higher
> education is based. We believe that these proposed
> changes have the potential to inflict irreversible damage upon our culture
> of education, learning and research. We strongly support the
> call for a Public Commission of Inquiry on the future of Higher Education in
> England and Wales.
> 
> 
> Savings made by cutting public spending on higher education will not
> ultimately be justified either economically or socially. Graduates
> contribute to the economy and, as importantly, they also contribute to
> society in a wider, less quantifiable sense. This whole process suggests a
> crassly materialist and short-termist view of what education can offer,
> without recognizing the ways in which lives and communities are transformed
> by the encouragement of curiosity, imagination and exploration.
> 
> Insisting that education is a private benefit only, to be funded by the
> individual towards financial superiority, is to grossly underestimate
> education as a social good.
> 
> Opening the Universities up to market forces will also have unpredictable,
> but quite possibly devastating consequences, with institutions failing or
> closing and volatility in the system that is not conducive to the longer
> time-frames of investigative research, nor to the gradual development of
> innovative pedagogy.
> 
> Drama, as a subject, may be particularly vulnerable in this Obrave new
> world¹, since it is unlikely to attract students who feel that it is
> essential to equip themselves for a high-earning career. This, despite the
> fact that many Drama students are attractive to employers, precisely because
> their less quantifiable Otransferable skills¹ make them good employees and
> colleagues. This, also despite the fact that the contributions of this
> diverse and expanding subject area bring both economic rewards and just as
> importantly, social benefit, and intellectual, imaginative and indeed
> political inspiration to many.
> 
> Yours sincerely,
> 
> etc
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> ------------------------------
> 
> Date:    Thu, 9 Dec 2010 12:36:15 -0000
> From:    Mary E Fogarty <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: cuts
> 
> I also would like to add my signature to this.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Mary Fogarty
> Lecturer in Dance: Urban Practice
> University of East London
> http://uel.academia.edu/MaryFogarty/About
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dance in higher education. on behalf of SARA REED
> Sent: Thu 12/9/2010 12:35 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: cuts
> 
>  I would also like to add my appreciation and support.
> 
> Very best wishes
> 
> Sara 
> 
> Sara Reed
> Consultant: Dance Education and Training
> Harleston Manor
> Kingsbridge
> Devon
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> --- On Thu, 9/12/10, Maria Koripas <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> From: Maria Koripas <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: cuts
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Thursday, 9 December, 2010, 12:14
> 
> Just wanted to add my appreciation and support for the letter.
> Thank you!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Maria Koripas
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> Course Director
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> Dance Programme
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> Associate Lecturer & Award Co-ordinator
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> Performance: Opera, Dance, Acting
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> 
> 
> School of Arts
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> Department of Media and Cultural Studies
> 
> Centre for Media, Culture and Creative Practice
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> Birkbeck
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> University of London
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> www.bbk.ac.uk/culture
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> Tel: 07957 388999
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> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> From: Midgelow Vida <[log in to unmask]>
> 
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 
> Sent: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 23:36
> 
> Subject: Re: cuts
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Dear Jane, yes these are clearly important matters.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> See a (proposed) letter to be sent tomorrow first thing (with thanks to Tom
> at Scudd et al)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Open Letter from the Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> The Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education represents lecturers and
> researchers of Dance across the UK.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> We write to voice our extreme disappointment at the governments proposals for
> the funding of Higher Education Institutions. We are particularly concerned
> that the withdrawal of public funding for the Arts will put our subject at
> extreme risk and lead to a lack of cultural leaders, creative thinkers and
> those able to change lives through their creative vision, enriching us all in
> invaluable ways.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> The effect of these proposals in the creative sector will be hugh and very
> negative. Further, as with other subjects in the arts, notably the Standing
> Conference of Drama Departments, we suggest to you that the assumption that
> stem subjects are of greater value (economic or otherwise) lacks a clear
> basis in evidence, and fails to pay attention to the impact of the arts
> across all sectors. Indeed as the recent report by Universities UK states:
> 'There can be no doubt the UK's creative economy is a jewel in our crown - a
> national success story and an area which the UK can rightly claim to be a
> global leader' (Crossick, preface). To place the dance and arts generally at
> risk is therefore very short sighted, for creatives and the creative
> industries will be crucial to the economic, as well as social and personal,
> well being of the UK into the future.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> We most strongly urge you to reconsider.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Dr Vida L Midgelow,
> 
> 
> Chair, Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education (SCODHE)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Vida L. Midgelow, PhD.
> 
> 
> Reader, Dance and Performance
> 
> 
> Chair, Standing Conference on Dance in Higher Education
> 
> 
> Director, The Choreographic Lab
> 
> 
> School of the Arts
> 
> 
> University of Northampton
> 
> 
> Avenue Campus
> 
> 
> St. George's Avenue
> 
> 
> Northampton
> 
> 
> NN2 6JD
> 
> 
> email: [log in to unmask]
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> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> 
> From: Dance in higher education. on behalf of Jane
> 
> 
> Sent: Wed 12/8/2010 19:19
> 
> 
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 
> 
> Subject: cuts
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> For those of you on the SCUDD list you will see possible ideas for a  draft
> 
> 
> letter against the introduction of higher fees for University education. I
> 
> 
> know the time is almost too short with the vote upon us but I hope that
> 
> 
> someone on the SCHODE exec could also draft and send a letter to Willetts et
> 
> 
> al.
> 
> 
> I believe it is vital that the dance community develop a political voice and
> 
> 
> speak out when the opportunity arises.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Below is the suggested letter posted to SCUDD from Cathy Turner at Exeter
> 
> 
> (with apologies and thanks to Cathy)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Jane
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --
> 
> 
> Dr Jane Bacon
> 
> 
> Divisional Leader and Reader, Performance Studies
> 
> 
> The School of the Arts
> 
> 
> The University of Northampton
> 
> 
> St Georges Ave
> 
> 
> Northampton
> 
> 
> NN2 6JD
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 01604 893296
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi all  not on SCUDD exec, but this is a kind of draft put together from
> 
> 
> the Warwick one and extracts of my own letter to MP and Willetts earlier. It
> 
> 
> may be blundering, but feel free to use any of it as material towards your
> 
> 
> own or a general letter.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hope you like the Shakespearean reference at the end.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Cathy
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> We, academic members of Drama departments across the UK, express our deep
> 
> 
> concern at the undue haste with which the government is proceeding to enact
> 
> 
> legislation to change the principle upon which the funding of higher
> 
> 
> education is based. We believe that these proposed
> 
> 
> changes have the potential to inflict irreversible damage upon our culture
> 
> 
> of education, learning and research. We strongly support the
> 
> 
> call for a Public Commission of Inquiry on the future of Higher Education in
> 
> 
> England and Wales.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Savings made by cutting public spending on higher education will not
> 
> 
> ultimately be justified either economically or socially. Graduates
> 
> 
> contribute to the economy and, as importantly, they also contribute to
> 
> 
> society in a wider, less quantifiable sense. This whole process suggests a
> 
> 
> crassly materialist and short-termist view of what education can offer,
> 
> 
> without recognizing the ways in which lives and communities are transformed
> 
> 
> by the encouragement of curiosity, imagination and exploration.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Insisting that education is a private benefit only, to be funded by the
> 
> 
> individual towards financial superiority, is to grossly underestimate
> 
> 
> education as a social good.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Opening the Universities up to market forces will also have unpredictable,
> 
> 
> but quite possibly devastating consequences, with institutions failing or
> 
> 
> closing and volatility in the system that is not conducive to the longer
> 
> 
> time-frames of investigative research, nor to the gradual development of
> 
> 
> innovative pedagogy.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Drama, as a subject, may be particularly vulnerable in this Obrave new
> 
> 
> world¹, since it is unlikely to attract students who feel that it is
> 
> 
> essential to equip themselves for a high-earning career. This, despite the
> 
> 
> fact that many Drama students are attractive to employers, precisely because
> 
> 
> their less quantifiable Otransferable skills¹ make them good employees and
> 
> 
> colleagues. This, also despite the fact that the contributions of this
> 
> 
> diverse and expanding subject area bring both economic rewards and just as
> 
> 
> importantly, social benefit, and intellectual, imaginative and indeed
> 
> 
> political inspiration to many.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Yours sincerely,
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> etc
> 
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> Date:    Thu, 9 Dec 2010 12:51:40 +0000
> From:    Toby Bennett <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: cuts
> 
> Thanks also from Roehampton, a very good and succinct letter.
> 
> Toby
> ________________________
> Toby Bennett
> Head of Department
> Dance Department
> Roehampton University
> Roehampton Lane
> London, SW15 5PJ
> 020 8392 3671
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Dance in higher education. [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Rachel Duerden [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 09 December 2010 12:37
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: cuts
> 
> And indeed many thanks and full support from us at MMU -
> 
> Rachel
> 
> Dr Rachel Duerden
> Co-Programme Leader, Dance
> Department of Contemporary Arts
> Manchester Metropolitan University
> MMU Cheshire
> Crewe Green Road
> Crewe
> Cheshire CW1 5DU
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> 
>>>> Sarah Whatley <[log in to unmask]> 12/9/2010 12:28 pm >>>
> Dear Vida, Jane and all
> 
> I am very glad to see this letter and it has my full support.  Thank you for acting so quickly for us all in dance.
> 
> Warm wishes
> Sarah
> 
> From: Dance in higher education. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Midgelow Vida
> Sent: 08 December 2010 23:37
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: cuts
> 
> 
> Dear Jane, yes these are clearly important matters.
> 
> See a (proposed) letter to be sent tomorrow first thing (with thanks to Tom at Scudd et al)
> 
> 
> 
> Open Letter from the Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education
> 
> The Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education represents lecturers and researchers of Dance across the UK.
> 
> We write to voice our extreme disappointment at the governments proposals for the funding of Higher Education Institutions. We are particularly concerned that the withdrawal of public funding for the Arts will put our subject at extreme risk and lead to a lack of cultural leaders, creative thinkers and those able to change lives through their creative vision, enriching us all in invaluable ways.
> 
> The effect of these proposals in the creative sector will be hugh and very negative. Further, as with other subjects in the arts, notably the Standing Conference of Drama Departments, we suggest to you that the assumption that stem subjects are of greater value (economic or otherwise) lacks a clear basis in evidence, and fails to pay attention to the impact of the arts across all sectors. Indeed as the recent report by Universities UK states: 'There can be no doubt the UK's creative economy is a jewel in our crown - a national success story and an area which the UK can rightly claim to be a global leader' (Crossick, preface). To place the dance and arts generally at risk is therefore very short sighted, for creatives and the creative industries will be crucial to the economic, as well as social and personal, well being of the UK into the future.
> 
> We most strongly urge you to reconsider.
> 
> 
> Dr Vida L Midgelow,
> Chair, Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education (SCODHE)
> 
> 
> Vida L. Midgelow, PhD.
> Reader, Dance and Performance
> Chair, Standing Conference on Dance in Higher Education
> Director, The Choreographic Lab
> School of the Arts
> University of Northampton
> Avenue Campus
> St. George's Avenue
> Northampton
> NN2 6JD
> email: [log in to unmask]
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dance in higher education. on behalf of Jane
> Sent: Wed 12/8/2010 19:19
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: cuts
> 
> 
> For those of you on the SCUDD list you will see possible ideas for a  draft
> letter against the introduction of higher fees for University education. I
> know the time is almost too short with the vote upon us but I hope that
> someone on the SCHODE exec could also draft and send a letter to Willetts et
> al.
> I believe it is vital that the dance community develop a political voice and
> speak out when the opportunity arises.
> 
> Below is the suggested letter posted to SCUDD from Cathy Turner at Exeter
> (with apologies and thanks to Cathy)
> 
> Thanks
> Jane
> 
> --
> Dr Jane Bacon
> Divisional Leader and Reader, Performance Studies
> The School of the Arts
> The University of Northampton
> St Georges Ave
> Northampton
> NN2 6JD
> 
> 01604 893296
> 
> Hi all  not on SCUDD exec, but this is a kind of draft put together from
> the Warwick one and extracts of my own letter to MP and Willetts earlier. It
> may be blundering, but feel free to use any of it as material towards your
> own or a general letter.
> 
> Hope you like the Shakespearean reference at the end.
> 
> Cathy
> 
> We, academic members of Drama departments across the UK, express our deep
> concern at the undue haste with which the government is proceeding to enact
> legislation to change the principle upon which the funding of higher
> education is based. We believe that these proposed
> changes have the potential to inflict irreversible damage upon our culture
> of education, learning and research. We strongly support the
> call for a Public Commission of Inquiry on the future of Higher Education in
> England and Wales.
> 
> 
> Savings made by cutting public spending on higher education will not
> ultimately be justified either economically or socially. Graduates
> contribute to the economy and, as importantly, they also contribute to
> society in a wider, less quantifiable sense. This whole process suggests a
> crassly materialist and short-termist view of what education can offer,
> without recognizing the ways in which lives and communities are transformed
> by the encouragement of curiosity, imagination and exploration.
> 
> Insisting that education is a private benefit only, to be funded by the
> individual towards financial superiority, is to grossly underestimate
> education as a social good.
> 
> Opening the Universities up to market forces will also have unpredictable,
> but quite possibly devastating consequences, with institutions failing or
> closing and volatility in the system that is not conducive to the longer
> time-frames of investigative research, nor to the gradual development of
> innovative pedagogy.
> 
> Drama, as a subject, may be particularly vulnerable in this Obrave new
> world¹, since it is unlikely to attract students who feel that it is
> essential to equip themselves for a high-earning career. This, despite the
> fact that many Drama students are attractive to employers, precisely because
> their less quantifiable Otransferable skills¹ make them good employees and
> colleagues. This, also despite the fact that the contributions of this
> diverse and expanding subject area bring both economic rewards and just as
> importantly, social benefit, and intellectual, imaginative and indeed
> political inspiration to many.
> 
> Yours sincerely,
> 
> etc
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> 
> Date:    Thu, 9 Dec 2010 12:59:21 +0000
> From:    Stephanie Jordan <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: cuts
> 
> Thanks so much from me too to Vida and Jane.  You certainly have me behind you!
> Best wishes
> Stephanie
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Dance in higher education. [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Theresa Buckland [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 09 December 2010 12:41
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: cuts
> 
> Well done Vida and Jane, et al for actioning this! - I've no doubt you have the whole dance community in HE behind you - thank you so much for your initiative!
> 
> warm wishes
> 
> Tess
> 
> 
> 
> Professor Theresa Buckland
> Professor of Performing Arts
> Department of Performance and Digital Arts
> Faculty of Humanities
> Clephan Building
> De Montfort University
> Leicester LE1 9BH
> England, UK
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> ________________________________
> From: Dance in higher education. on behalf of Rachel Duerden
> Sent: Thu 09/12/2010 12:37
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: cuts
> 
> And indeed many thanks and full support from us at MMU -
> 
> Rachel
> 
> Dr Rachel Duerden
> Co-Programme Leader, Dance
> Department of Contemporary Arts
> Manchester Metropolitan University
> MMU Cheshire
> Crewe Green Road
> Crewe
> Cheshire CW1 5DU
> 
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> 
>>>> Sarah Whatley <[log in to unmask]> 12/9/2010 12:28 pm >>>
> Dear Vida, Jane and all
> 
> I am very glad to see this letter and it has my full support.  Thank you for acting so quickly for us all in dance.
> 
> Warm wishes
> Sarah
> 
> From: Dance in higher education. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Midgelow Vida
> Sent: 08 December 2010 23:37
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: cuts
> 
> 
> Dear Jane, yes these are clearly important matters.
> 
> See a (proposed) letter to be sent tomorrow first thing (with thanks to Tom at Scudd et al)
> 
> 
> 
> Open Letter from the Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education
> 
> The Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education represents lecturers and researchers of Dance across the UK.
> 
> We write to voice our extreme disappointment at the governments proposals for the funding of Higher Education Institutions. We are particularly concerned that the withdrawal of public funding for the Arts will put our subject at extreme risk and lead to a lack of cultural leaders, creative thinkers and those able to change lives through their creative vision, enriching us all in invaluable ways.
> 
> The effect of these proposals in the creative sector will be hugh and very negative. Further, as with other subjects in the arts, notably the Standing Conference of Drama Departments, we suggest to you that the assumption that stem subjects are of greater value (economic or otherwise) lacks a clear basis in evidence, and fails to pay attention to the impact of the arts across all sectors. Indeed as the recent report by Universities UK states: 'There can be no doubt the UK's creative economy is a jewel in our crown - a national success story and an area which the UK can rightly claim to be a global leader' (Crossick, preface). To place the dance and arts generally at risk is therefore very short sighted, for creatives and the creative industries will be crucial to the economic, as well as social and personal, well being of the UK into the future.
> 
> We most strongly urge you to reconsider.
> 
> 
> Dr Vida L Midgelow,
> Chair, Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education (SCODHE)
> 
> 
> Vida L. Midgelow, PhD.
> Reader, Dance and Performance
> Chair, Standing Conference on Dance in Higher Education
> Director, The Choreographic Lab
> School of the Arts
> University of Northampton
> Avenue Campus
> St. George's Avenue
> Northampton
> NN2 6JD
> email: [log in to unmask]
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dance in higher education. on behalf of Jane
> Sent: Wed 12/8/2010 19:19
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: cuts
> 
> 
> For those of you on the SCUDD list you will see possible ideas for a  draft
> letter against the introduction of higher fees for University education. I
> know the time is almost too short with the vote upon us but I hope that
> someone on the SCHODE exec could also draft and send a letter to Willetts et
> al.
> I believe it is vital that the dance community develop a political voice and
> speak out when the opportunity arises.
> 
> Below is the suggested letter posted to SCUDD from Cathy Turner at Exeter
> (with apologies and thanks to Cathy)
> 
> Thanks
> Jane
> 
> --
> Dr Jane Bacon
> Divisional Leader and Reader, Performance Studies
> The School of the Arts
> The University of Northampton
> St Georges Ave
> Northampton
> NN2 6JD
> 
> 01604 893296
> 
> Hi all  not on SCUDD exec, but this is a kind of draft put together from
> the Warwick one and extracts of my own letter to MP and Willetts earlier. It
> may be blundering, but feel free to use any of it as material towards your
> own or a general letter.
> 
> Hope you like the Shakespearean reference at the end.
> 
> Cathy
> 
> We, academic members of Drama departments across the UK, express our deep
> concern at the undue haste with which the government is proceeding to enact
> legislation to change the principle upon which the funding of higher
> education is based. We believe that these proposed
> changes have the potential to inflict irreversible damage upon our culture
> of education, learning and research. We strongly support the
> call for a Public Commission of Inquiry on the future of Higher Education in
> England and Wales.
> 
> 
> Savings made by cutting public spending on higher education will not
> ultimately be justified either economically or socially. Graduates
> contribute to the economy and, as importantly, they also contribute to
> society in a wider, less quantifiable sense. This whole process suggests a
> crassly materialist and short-termist view of what education can offer,
> without recognizing the ways in which lives and communities are transformed
> by the encouragement of curiosity, imagination and exploration.
> 
> Insisting that education is a private benefit only, to be funded by the
> individual towards financial superiority, is to grossly underestimate
> education as a social good.
> 
> Opening the Universities up to market forces will also have unpredictable,
> but quite possibly devastating consequences, with institutions failing or
> closing and volatility in the system that is not conducive to the longer
> time-frames of investigative research, nor to the gradual development of
> innovative pedagogy.
> 
> Drama, as a subject, may be particularly vulnerable in this Obrave new
> world¹, since it is unlikely to attract students who feel that it is
> essential to equip themselves for a high-earning career. This, despite the
> fact that many Drama students are attractive to employers, precisely because
> their less quantifiable Otransferable skills¹ make them good employees and
> colleagues. This, also despite the fact that the contributions of this
> diverse and expanding subject area bring both economic rewards and just as
> importantly, social benefit, and intellectual, imaginative and indeed
> political inspiration to many.
> 
> Yours sincerely,
> 
> etc
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> This e-mail is private and may be confidential and is for the intended recipient only.  If you are not the intended recipient you are strictly prohibited from using, printing, copying, distributing or disseminating this e-mail or any information contained in it.
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> 
> Date:    Thu, 9 Dec 2010 13:58:12 -0000
> From:    "Stewart, Nigel" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: cuts
> 
> I, too, add my wholehearted appreciation and support for this letter.  These cuts, which have been condemned even by the head of HEFCE (THE 26/11) and members of Browne's own review panel, are short-sighted, showing scant regard for the creative, cultural and economic contribution made by dance and the other arts to British society; and will surely skewer the teaching of our subject in the future.  
> 	
> Nigel Stewart
> Senior Lecturer | Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts | Lancaster University 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dance in higher education. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Stephanie Jordan
> Sent: 09 December 2010 12:59
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: cuts
> 
> Thanks so much from me too to Vida and Jane.  You certainly have me behind you!
> Best wishes
> Stephanie
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Dance in higher education. [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Theresa Buckland [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 09 December 2010 12:41
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: cuts
> 
> Well done Vida and Jane, et al for actioning this! - I've no doubt you have the whole dance community in HE behind you - thank you so much for your initiative!
> 
> warm wishes
> 
> Tess
> 
> 
> 
> Professor Theresa Buckland
> Professor of Performing Arts
> Department of Performance and Digital Arts Faculty of Humanities Clephan Building De Montfort University Leicester LE1 9BH England, UK
> 
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> ________________________________
> From: Dance in higher education. on behalf of Rachel Duerden
> Sent: Thu 09/12/2010 12:37
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: cuts
> 
> And indeed many thanks and full support from us at MMU -
> 
> Rachel
> 
> Dr Rachel Duerden
> Co-Programme Leader, Dance
> Department of Contemporary Arts
> Manchester Metropolitan University
> MMU Cheshire
> Crewe Green Road
> Crewe
> Cheshire CW1 5DU
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> 
> 
>>>> Sarah Whatley <[log in to unmask]> 12/9/2010 12:28 pm >>>
> Dear Vida, Jane and all
> 
> I am very glad to see this letter and it has my full support.  Thank you for acting so quickly for us all in dance.
> 
> Warm wishes
> Sarah
> 
> From: Dance in higher education. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Midgelow Vida
> Sent: 08 December 2010 23:37
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: cuts
> 
> 
> Dear Jane, yes these are clearly important matters.
> 
> See a (proposed) letter to be sent tomorrow first thing (with thanks to Tom at Scudd et al)
> 
> 
> 
> Open Letter from the Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education
> 
> The Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education represents lecturers and researchers of Dance across the UK.
> 
> We write to voice our extreme disappointment at the governments proposals for the funding of Higher Education Institutions. We are particularly concerned that the withdrawal of public funding for the Arts will put our subject at extreme risk and lead to a lack of cultural leaders, creative thinkers and those able to change lives through their creative vision, enriching us all in invaluable ways.
> 
> The effect of these proposals in the creative sector will be hugh and very negative. Further, as with other subjects in the arts, notably the Standing Conference of Drama Departments, we suggest to you that the assumption that stem subjects are of greater value (economic or otherwise) lacks a clear basis in evidence, and fails to pay attention to the impact of the arts across all sectors. Indeed as the recent report by Universities UK states: 'There can be no doubt the UK's creative economy is a jewel in our crown - a national success story and an area which the UK can rightly claim to be a global leader' (Crossick, preface). To place the dance and arts generally at risk is therefore very short sighted, for creatives and the creative industries will be crucial to the economic, as well as social and personal, well being of the UK into the future.
> 
> We most strongly urge you to reconsider.
> 
> 
> Dr Vida L Midgelow,
> Chair, Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education (SCODHE)
> 
> 
> Vida L. Midgelow, PhD.
> Reader, Dance and Performance
> Chair, Standing Conference on Dance in Higher Education Director, The Choreographic Lab School of the Arts University of Northampton Avenue Campus St. George's Avenue Northampton
> NN2 6JD
> email: [log in to unmask]
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dance in higher education. on behalf of Jane
> Sent: Wed 12/8/2010 19:19
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: cuts
> 
> 
> For those of you on the SCUDD list you will see possible ideas for a  draft letter against the introduction of higher fees for University education. I know the time is almost too short with the vote upon us but I hope that someone on the SCHODE exec could also draft and send a letter to Willetts et al.
> I believe it is vital that the dance community develop a political voice and speak out when the opportunity arises.
> 
> Below is the suggested letter posted to SCUDD from Cathy Turner at Exeter (with apologies and thanks to Cathy)
> 
> Thanks
> Jane
> 
> --
> Dr Jane Bacon
> Divisional Leader and Reader, Performance Studies The School of the Arts The University of Northampton St Georges Ave Northampton
> NN2 6JD
> 
> 01604 893296
> 
> Hi all  not on SCUDD exec, but this is a kind of draft put together from the Warwick one and extracts of my own letter to MP and Willetts earlier. It may be blundering, but feel free to use any of it as material towards your own or a general letter.
> 
> Hope you like the Shakespearean reference at the end.
> 
> Cathy
> 
> We, academic members of Drama departments across the UK, express our deep concern at the undue haste with which the government is proceeding to enact legislation to change the principle upon which the funding of higher education is based. We believe that these proposed changes have the potential to inflict irreversible damage upon our culture of education, learning and research. We strongly support the call for a Public Commission of Inquiry on the future of Higher Education in England and Wales.
> 
> 
> Savings made by cutting public spending on higher education will not ultimately be justified either economically or socially. Graduates contribute to the economy and, as importantly, they also contribute to society in a wider, less quantifiable sense. This whole process suggests a crassly materialist and short-termist view of what education can offer, without recognizing the ways in which lives and communities are transformed by the encouragement of curiosity, imagination and exploration.
> 
> Insisting that education is a private benefit only, to be funded by the individual towards financial superiority, is to grossly underestimate education as a social good.
> 
> Opening the Universities up to market forces will also have unpredictable, but quite possibly devastating consequences, with institutions failing or closing and volatility in the system that is not conducive to the longer time-frames of investigative research, nor to the gradual development of innovative pedagogy.
> 
> Drama, as a subject, may be particularly vulnerable in this Obrave new world¹, since it is unlikely to attract students who feel that it is essential to equip themselves for a high-earning career. This, despite the fact that many Drama students are attractive to employers, precisely because their less quantifiable Otransferable skills¹ make them good employees and colleagues. This, also despite the fact that the contributions of this diverse and expanding subject area bring both economic rewards and just as importantly, social benefit, and intellectual, imaginative and indeed political inspiration to many.
> 
> Yours sincerely,
> 
> etc
> 
> 
> 
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> ------------------------------
> 
> Date:    Thu, 9 Dec 2010 17:57:47 +0000
> From:    "Christy Adair (C.Adair)" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: cuts
> 
> Dear Vida
> 
> This letter is very welcome. Thank you for offering a response from SCODHE.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Christy
> 
> Professor Christy Adair
> Faculty of Arts
> York St John University
> Lord Mayor's Walk
> York YO31 7EX
> +44 (0)1904 876555
> 
> From: Dance in higher education. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sarah Whatley
> Sent: 09 December 2010 12:28
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: cuts
> 
> Dear Vida, Jane and all
> 
> I am very glad to see this letter and it has my full support.  Thank you for acting so quickly for us all in dance.
> 
> Warm wishes
> Sarah
> 
> From: Dance in higher education. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Midgelow Vida
> Sent: 08 December 2010 23:37
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: cuts
> 
> 
> Dear Jane, yes these are clearly important matters.
> 
> See a (proposed) letter to be sent tomorrow first thing (with thanks to Tom at Scudd et al)
> 
> 
> 
> Open Letter from the Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education
> 
> The Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education represents lecturers and researchers of Dance across the UK.
> 
> We write to voice our extreme disappointment at the governments proposals for the funding of Higher Education Institutions. We are particularly concerned that the withdrawal of public funding for the Arts will put our subject at extreme risk and lead to a lack of cultural leaders, creative thinkers and those able to change lives through their creative vision, enriching us all in invaluable ways.
> 
> The effect of these proposals in the creative sector will be hugh and very negative. Further, as with other subjects in the arts, notably the Standing Conference of Drama Departments, we suggest to you that the assumption that stem subjects are of greater value (economic or otherwise) lacks a clear basis in evidence, and fails to pay attention to the impact of the arts across all sectors. Indeed as the recent report by Universities UK states: 'There can be no doubt the UK's creative economy is a jewel in our crown - a national success story and an area which the UK can rightly claim to be a global leader' (Crossick, preface). To place the dance and arts generally at risk is therefore very short sighted, for creatives and the creative industries will be crucial to the economic, as well as social and personal, well being of the UK into the future.
> 
> We most strongly urge you to reconsider.
> 
> 
> Dr Vida L Midgelow,
> Chair, Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education (SCODHE)
> 
> 
> Vida L. Midgelow, PhD.
> Reader, Dance and Performance
> Chair, Standing Conference on Dance in Higher Education
> Director, The Choreographic Lab
> School of the Arts
> University of Northampton
> Avenue Campus
> St. George's Avenue
> Northampton
> NN2 6JD
> email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dance in higher education. on behalf of Jane
> Sent: Wed 12/8/2010 19:19
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: cuts
> 
> 
> For those of you on the SCUDD list you will see possible ideas for a  draft
> letter against the introduction of higher fees for University education. I
> know the time is almost too short with the vote upon us but I hope that
> someone on the SCHODE exec could also draft and send a letter to Willetts et
> al.
> I believe it is vital that the dance community develop a political voice and
> speak out when the opportunity arises.
> 
> Below is the suggested letter posted to SCUDD from Cathy Turner at Exeter
> (with apologies and thanks to Cathy)
> 
> Thanks
> Jane
> 
> --
> Dr Jane Bacon
> Divisional Leader and Reader, Performance Studies
> The School of the Arts
> The University of Northampton
> St Georges Ave
> Northampton
> NN2 6JD
> 
> 01604 893296
> 
> Hi all  not on SCUDD exec, but this is a kind of draft put together from
> the Warwick one and extracts of my own letter to MP and Willetts earlier. It
> may be blundering, but feel free to use any of it as material towards your
> own or a general letter.
> 
> Hope you like the Shakespearean reference at the end.
> 
> Cathy
> 
> We, academic members of Drama departments across the UK, express our deep
> concern at the undue haste with which the government is proceeding to enact
> legislation to change the principle upon which the funding of higher
> education is based. We believe that these proposed
> changes have the potential to inflict irreversible damage upon our culture
> of education, learning and research. We strongly support the
> call for a Public Commission of Inquiry on the future of Higher Education in
> England and Wales.
> 
> 
> Savings made by cutting public spending on higher education will not
> ultimately be justified either economically or socially. Graduates
> contribute to the economy and, as importantly, they also contribute to
> society in a wider, less quantifiable sense. This whole process suggests a
> crassly materialist and short-termist view of what education can offer,
> without recognizing the ways in which lives and communities are transformed
> by the encouragement of curiosity, imagination and exploration.
> 
> Insisting that education is a private benefit only, to be funded by the
> individual towards financial superiority, is to grossly underestimate
> education as a social good.
> 
> Opening the Universities up to market forces will also have unpredictable,
> but quite possibly devastating consequences, with institutions failing or
> closing and volatility in the system that is not conducive to the longer
> time-frames of investigative research, nor to the gradual development of
> innovative pedagogy.
> 
> Drama, as a subject, may be particularly vulnerable in this Obrave new
> world¹, since it is unlikely to attract students who feel that it is
> essential to equip themselves for a high-earning career. This, despite the
> fact that many Drama students are attractive to employers, precisely because
> their less quantifiable Otransferable skills¹ make them good employees and
> colleagues. This, also despite the fact that the contributions of this
> diverse and expanding subject area bring both economic rewards and just as
> importantly, social benefit, and intellectual, imaginative and indeed
> political inspiration to many.
> 
> Yours sincerely,
> 
> etc
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> ------------------------------
> 
> Date:    Thu, 9 Dec 2010 18:16:33 +0000
> From:    Andree Grau <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: cuts
> 
> Thanks for an excellent and of course you have the support from me at Roehampton, as well as from my colleagues. We wrote to our MPs both personally and as a department.
> 
> Andrée
> 
> Professor Andrée Grau
> Professor of the Anthropology of Dance
> Convener MA Dance Anthropology
> Roehampton University
> Froebel College
> Roehampton Lane
> London SW15 5PJ
> ________________________________________
> From: Dance in higher education. [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Midgelow Vida [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 08 December 2010 23:36
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: cuts
> 
> Dear Jane, yes these are clearly important matters.
> 
> See a (proposed) letter to be sent tomorrow first thing (with thanks to Tom at Scudd et al)
> 
> 
> 
> Open Letter from the Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education
> 
> The Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education represents lecturers and researchers of Dance across the UK.
> 
> We write to voice our extreme disappointment at the governments proposals for the funding of Higher Education Institutions. We are particularly concerned that the withdrawal of public funding for the Arts will put our subject at extreme risk and lead to a lack of cultural leaders, creative thinkers and those able to change lives through their creative vision, enriching us all in invaluable ways.
> 
> The effect of these proposals in the creative sector will be hugh and very negative. Further, as with other subjects in the arts, notably the Standing Conference of Drama Departments, we suggest to you that the assumption that stem subjects are of greater value (economic or otherwise) lacks a clear basis in evidence, and fails to pay attention to the impact of the arts across all sectors. Indeed as the recent report by Universities UK states: 'There can be no doubt the UK's creative economy is a jewel in our crown - a national success story and an area which the UK can rightly claim to be a global leader' (Crossick, preface). To place the dance and arts generally at risk is therefore very short sighted, for creatives and the creative industries will be crucial to the economic, as well as social and personal, well being of the UK into the future.
> 
> We most strongly urge you to reconsider.
> 
> 
> Dr Vida L Midgelow,
> Chair, Standing Conference of Dance in Higher Education (SCODHE)
> 
> 
> Vida L. Midgelow, PhD.
> Reader, Dance and Performance
> Chair, Standing Conference on Dance in Higher Education
> Director, The Choreographic Lab
> School of the Arts
> University of Northampton
> Avenue Campus
> St. George's Avenue
> Northampton
> NN2 6JD
> email: [log in to unmask]
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dance in higher education. on behalf of Jane
> Sent: Wed 12/8/2010 19:19
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: cuts
> 
> 
> For those of you on the SCUDD list you will see possible ideas for a  draft
> letter against the introduction of higher fees for University education. I
> know the time is almost too short with the vote upon us but I hope that
> someone on the SCHODE exec could also draft and send a letter to Willetts et
> al.
> I believe it is vital that the dance community develop a political voice and
> speak out when the opportunity arises.
> 
> Below is the suggested letter posted to SCUDD from Cathy Turner at Exeter
> (with apologies and thanks to Cathy)
> 
> Thanks
> Jane
> 
> --
> Dr Jane Bacon
> Divisional Leader and Reader, Performance Studies
> The School of the Arts
> The University of Northampton
> St Georges Ave
> Northampton
> NN2 6JD
> 
> 01604 893296
> 
> Hi all  not on SCUDD exec, but this is a kind of draft put together from
> the Warwick one and extracts of my own letter to MP and Willetts earlier. It
> may be blundering, but feel free to use any of it as material towards your
> own or a general letter.
> 
> Hope you like the Shakespearean reference at the end.
> 
> Cathy
> 
> We, academic members of Drama departments across the UK, express our deep
> concern at the undue haste with which the government is proceeding to enact
> legislation to change the principle upon which the funding of higher
> education is based. We believe that these proposed
> changes have the potential to inflict irreversible damage upon our culture
> of education, learning and research. We strongly support the
> call for a Public Commission of Inquiry on the future of Higher Education in
> England and Wales.
> 
> 
> Savings made by cutting public spending on higher education will not
> ultimately be justified either economically or socially. Graduates
> contribute to the economy and, as importantly, they also contribute to
> society in a wider, less quantifiable sense. This whole process suggests a
> crassly materialist and short-termist view of what education can offer,
> without recognizing the ways in which lives and communities are transformed
> by the encouragement of curiosity, imagination and exploration.
> 
> Insisting that education is a private benefit only, to be funded by the
> individual towards financial superiority, is to grossly underestimate
> education as a social good.
> 
> Opening the Universities up to market forces will also have unpredictable,
> but quite possibly devastating consequences, with institutions failing or
> closing and volatility in the system that is not conducive to the longer
> time-frames of investigative research, nor to the gradual development of
> innovative pedagogy.
> 
> Drama, as a subject, may be particularly vulnerable in this Obrave new
> world¹, since it is unlikely to attract students who feel that it is
> essential to equip themselves for a high-earning career. This, despite the
> fact that many Drama students are attractive to employers, precisely because
> their less quantifiable Otransferable skills¹ make them good employees and
> colleagues. This, also despite the fact that the contributions of this
> diverse and expanding subject area bring both economic rewards and just as
> importantly, social benefit, and intellectual, imaginative and indeed
> political inspiration to many.
> 
> Yours sincerely,
> 
> etc
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> This e-mail is private and may be confidential and is for the intended recipient only.  If you are not the intended recipient you are strictly prohibited from using, printing, copying, distributing or disseminating this e-mail or any information contained in it.
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
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> 
> ------------------------------
> 
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