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UK based OCA students will have found it difficult to miss the publication yesterday of the Browne Report (Or more formally the report of The Independent Review of Higher Education Funding and Student Finance ). The press coverage of the report has majored on the likelihood that fees for full time study at Universities in […]
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On “M”ness As announced recently on this blog, the OCA is developing an MA in Fine Art in conjunction with the University of the Creative Arts – see here. Last week we were invited to their Epsom campus in Surrey for an “M”-ness workshop, the task of the day being to define what it is […]
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The second exhibition visit organised by the OCA took a group of students, director Gareth Dent and myself, to Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery. The stunning Victorian building was the perfect venue to host a selection of some of the most memorable and distinctive photographs by the renowned Magnum and National Geographic Photographer. Steve McCurry […]
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Blog of the week this month is Rob’s Learning Blog. It is one of the first illustration learning logs I have seen – the course was only introduced this year, but has has exceeded expectations in terms of enrolments. I was struck not just by the quality of the drawing but also by the effort […]
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In August we invited volunteers to lead the development of an OCA Student Association. We had a small number of volunteers and Jim Smith was chosen as the student with the most relevant experience to work with us. Yesterday Jim attended his first meeting of the OCA Teaching and Learning Committee and spent time with […]
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It was fabulous to meet some of our students as they graduated last week at Bucks New University in High Wycombe. A pity we didn’t prepare rather more carefully. Sandra and Margaret were very gracious but it was a shame that Sandra’s father and Margaret didn’t get a meal. It’s a long story, but suffice […]
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One of our students has recently been in touch to say that Canon had said that an OCA student card was not sufficient evidence to get a student discount. As a relatively small college this can happen from time to time. However OCA students working towards a Higher Education qualification are now being pre-registered with […]
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It’s quiet here at the OCA offices today. Gareth and I got back to Sheffield late last night after a long, long day. We were meeting with the University for the Creative Arts to validate our MA in Fine Art. First of all UCA had to satisfy themselves that they wanted to partner with the […]
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The Open College of the Arts works with the Prisoners’ Education Trust to enable students in prison to access our courses. It is an important part of our charitable purpose and student fees are met by a combination of OCA bursaries and grants from the Trust. As this work is largely invisible to other students […]
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Blog of the week this month is southliving written by China based OCA photography student Dewald Botha. And written is the operative word, one of the defining features of Dewald’s learning blog is the way that he sets out so clearly his thinking about his work – both in advance of shooting and then subsequently. […]
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