I spent my Erasmus year at UWE in 2005/2006 where I studied Film Studies. It was here that I discovered my love for the subject and decided to do a PhD (which I successfully completed last year). I loved the departmennt and the great teaching atmosphere. I owe so much to this department!
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Edward Baker
12 years ago
I know people who have graduated from this degree, who have gone on to do fantastic pieces of work to critical acclaim. The course if obviously a jewel in UWE's crown and would just be stupendously ridiculous for them to terminate it...
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Edward Baker
12 years ago
I know people who have graduated from this degree, who have gone on to do fantastic pieces of work to critical acclaim. The course if obviously a jewel in UWE's crown and would just be stupendously ridiculous for them to terminate it...
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Rebecca D'Monte
12 years ago
To stop recruitment for 1st year film studies at UWE is an extraordinary decision that is quite illogical. The staff has highly rated publications, strong links at local, national and international levels, and a commitment to their subject; the students cannot fail to benefit from this. The whole process has been totally untransparent and severely impacts upon everyone's morale at UWE. Support film studies and the future of education; sign the petition!
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Anonymous
12 years ago
It would be a major loss for UWE if it decides to get rid of Film Studies. Please please save it and let others enjoy the course as much as I did when I was a student!
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Lewis Arthur
12 years ago
To have a course that I've been in for 3 years be taking away is unacceptable and I will not stand for it.
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Jo Byron
12 years ago
As an ex-graduate, I was thoroughly disappointed in UWE and the way they treat their students and staff. However, as a ex arts student I was amazed by the wealth of knowledge and inspiration I gained from an amazing team of staff. I don't think UWE will be happy until it is just teaching Business and Law, as the arts is clearly something it fails to grasp. But hopefully, in keeping this course and expanding its arts section along with everything else as it grows, the university will see how much there is to gain from being a well-rounded university rather than a soulless profit-maker. I myself studied Drama there, and now teach it. My course was fundamental to me, as I needed it to be somewhere local to the Bristol area, and did not want to have to go to a theatre school to study acting, I wanted a more grounded course in the theory of drama, which is what I got here. Just like the film course, for certain people these courses are fundamental to their career development. Why don't you try asking the graduates and lecturers about this course's successes rather than just axing it?
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Drew Milne
12 years ago
Management need to be made to explain why they are doing this, and everyone else needs to organise a coalition of resistance to the way universities are being managed.
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Kenzo Okamoto
12 years ago
As a recent graduate of this program, I learned so much and am on way to being a
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Joe Amos
12 years ago
Probably another UWE
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nicholas foundoukis
12 years ago
please no!!
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Jim Clarke
12 years ago
I understand that in many if not most universities, and perhaps UWE also, the humanities actually end up subsidising STEM subject courses. I suspect the Film Studies course at UWE is perfectly viable if not popular if they are resorting to preventing applicants who want to attend from doing so. But government HE policy seems to fetishize the sciences (I agree they need and deserve financial support.) But that support need not come at the expense of perfectly good humanities departments.
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Nick Hubble
12 years ago
The attack on the Humanities in this country is short-sighted and illogical. Everyone benefits from their expansion and they are broad-based degrees that maximise students' prospects for genral employment and being able to express themselves. Film Studies, in particular, are an essential part of the British HE system and the wider life of the nation.
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Amy Harrison
12 years ago
I just don't understand it. The university is not in any financial difficulty, why would they stop a great course and take jobs away?
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Antony Keen
12 years ago
This seems unwise.
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Tim Lockwood
12 years ago
Any current or former film studies student should sign this becuase it undermines all the work already achieved in the field as well as jeopardising future research.
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Mitchel J Cook
12 years ago
This is ridiculous. Bristol is a film city!
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Andy Channelle
12 years ago
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I'm a former student, and former instructor at UWE. This kind of move is crazy. There's no point in teaching people about sales and marketing if there's nothing being made to sell or market. This is short-termism at its worst.
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Andrew M Butler
12 years ago
It would devalue the university and the city to close Film Studies - it can't be allowed to happen.
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Josh
12 years ago
Close this useless course. Only signed this to get my comment in. What a crap course.
I spent my Erasmus year at UWE in 2005/2006 where I studied Film Studies. It was here that I discovered my love for the subject and decided to do a PhD (which I successfully completed last year). I loved the departmennt and the great teaching atmosphere. I owe so much to this department!
I know people who have graduated from this degree, who have gone on to do fantastic pieces of work to critical acclaim. The course if obviously a jewel in UWE's crown and would just be stupendously ridiculous for them to terminate it...
I know people who have graduated from this degree, who have gone on to do fantastic pieces of work to critical acclaim. The course if obviously a jewel in UWE's crown and would just be stupendously ridiculous for them to terminate it...
To stop recruitment for 1st year film studies at UWE is an extraordinary decision that is quite illogical. The staff has highly rated publications, strong links at local, national and international levels, and a commitment to their subject; the students cannot fail to benefit from this. The whole process has been totally untransparent and severely impacts upon everyone's morale at UWE. Support film studies and the future of education; sign the petition!
It would be a major loss for UWE if it decides to get rid of Film Studies. Please please save it and let others enjoy the course as much as I did when I was a student!
To have a course that I've been in for 3 years be taking away is unacceptable and I will not stand for it.
As an ex-graduate, I was thoroughly disappointed in UWE and the way they treat their students and staff. However, as a ex arts student I was amazed by the wealth of knowledge and inspiration I gained from an amazing team of staff. I don't think UWE will be happy until it is just teaching Business and Law, as the arts is clearly something it fails to grasp. But hopefully, in keeping this course and expanding its arts section along with everything else as it grows, the university will see how much there is to gain from being a well-rounded university rather than a soulless profit-maker. I myself studied Drama there, and now teach it. My course was fundamental to me, as I needed it to be somewhere local to the Bristol area, and did not want to have to go to a theatre school to study acting, I wanted a more grounded course in the theory of drama, which is what I got here. Just like the film course, for certain people these courses are fundamental to their career development. Why don't you try asking the graduates and lecturers about this course's successes rather than just axing it?
Management need to be made to explain why they are doing this, and everyone else needs to organise a coalition of resistance to the way universities are being managed.
As a recent graduate of this program, I learned so much and am on way to being a
Probably another UWE
please no!!
I understand that in many if not most universities, and perhaps UWE also, the humanities actually end up subsidising STEM subject courses. I suspect the Film Studies course at UWE is perfectly viable if not popular if they are resorting to preventing applicants who want to attend from doing so. But government HE policy seems to fetishize the sciences (I agree they need and deserve financial support.) But that support need not come at the expense of perfectly good humanities departments.
The attack on the Humanities in this country is short-sighted and illogical. Everyone benefits from their expansion and they are broad-based degrees that maximise students' prospects for genral employment and being able to express themselves. Film Studies, in particular, are an essential part of the British HE system and the wider life of the nation.
I just don't understand it. The university is not in any financial difficulty, why would they stop a great course and take jobs away?
This seems unwise.
Any current or former film studies student should sign this becuase it undermines all the work already achieved in the field as well as jeopardising future research.
This is ridiculous. Bristol is a film city!
I'm a former student, and former instructor at UWE. This kind of move is crazy. There's no point in teaching people about sales and marketing if there's nothing being made to sell or market. This is short-termism at its worst.
It would devalue the university and the city to close Film Studies - it can't be allowed to happen.
Close this useless course. Only signed this to get my comment in. What a crap course.