Thanks Vida and Jane, the University of Sunderland's Dance department
echo your sentiments 100%.
Regards
Lesley
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From: Stephanie Jordan <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, December 9, 2010 12:59 pm
Subject: Re: cuts
> Thanks so much from me too to Vida and Jane. You certainly have
> me behind you!
> Best wishes
> Stephanie
>
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> 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
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> 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
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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]
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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
> thatsomeone 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
> cultureof 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
> longertime-frames of investigative research, nor to the gradual
> development of
> innovative pedagogy.
>
> Drama, as a subject, may be particularly vulnerable in this Obrave
new
> worldą, 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 skillsą 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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