These people have experience in the industry as well as teaching. Why replace them?
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Neville Lynch
12 years ago
Art Students are part of the future of our country - why are we saving pennies? We should do everything we can to open their hearts and minds...
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Waltraud Baur
12 years ago
Living in Germany, iIm admiring the great power of modern New Zealand Arts. Don't distroy this!!!
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David Woodings
12 years ago
Another attempt to dumb down pedagogy in search for monetary benefits. Another group of skilled teachers being replaced by an administrative body. The outcome for students will be dire.
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Denise Mackay
12 years ago
Art exists for the sake of art, not profit.
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Sebastian Mackay
12 years ago
Travesty! Education is not a corporation
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Sandy Gottermeyer
12 years ago
how can you possibly think part time and itinerant providers can delivery the same education. You. Have to ask what qualification the people making this decision have!?
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Clive Stone
12 years ago
I thought Unitec was above this sort of thing...
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Natasha van Schaardenburg
12 years ago
A pathetic prioritising of profit over people.
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Fiona Van Oyen
12 years ago
I did not ever believe I would live in a time of seeing the casualization of teaching in our country. This Government is killing a profession that is world renound. NZ teachers are sought world wide because we a good at what we do in the structure of past decades.
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Jonathan Rankin
12 years ago
Stinginess is never the way to growth in any instance
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Jan Simmons
12 years ago
This is just too ridiculous to contemplate! The so called industry professionals are sitting in that room! Are they blind?!
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Jan Simmons
12 years ago
This is just too ridiculous to contemplate! These so called 'industry
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Deborah Jensen
12 years ago
Please re-think this decision. I believe it will be harmful to Unitec and diminish the value of the degree former students have achieved.
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Rachel O'Reilly
12 years ago
This situation has become known to me in Europe and it is really the worst PR for the health of NZ arts that could be invented. Reconsideration is possible. Suggest doing this immediately.
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fiona
12 years ago
I studied in 1998 and am now running a fashion brand in London. My degree has got me where I am. do not make this mistake and hinder potential future creatives. who will bring the experience home.
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Danny Butt
12 years ago
Over 15 years (including a year at Unitec) I've taught hundreds of industry practitioners who have returned to education because they found that after a period of time their practice plateaued and they sought a space to reflect on their work in a critical way in order to remake their practice into something that will sustain them through the next stage of their careers. Under this model, industry providers who are largely looking to train students for entry-level positions will provide instruction that will turn out to wear out its usefulness after a student has spent a few years, and at that point they will have to find some other place to study, rather than having a degree that prepares them for life. The idea that institutes of technology teach "doing" while universities teach "thinking" died in the 1980s, and this distinction is particularly false for the creative arts where doing is a form of thinking, requiring critical reflection on rapidly changing genres of production. It is hard not to see this move as stemming from a belief that the best West Auckland students should hope for is a second-tier life in the creative sector. Shame!
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Zita Joyce
12 years ago
Many wonderful teachers, artists, and industry professionals are being lost by Unitec in the name of some unfounded experiment. This needs to be completely reconsidered, for the sake of those professionals, and all of the students whose careers start with real teachers and real artists.
staggering stupidity.
Stop the madness
These people have experience in the industry as well as teaching. Why replace them?
Art Students are part of the future of our country - why are we saving pennies? We should do everything we can to open their hearts and minds...
Living in Germany, iIm admiring the great power of modern New Zealand Arts. Don't distroy this!!!
Another attempt to dumb down pedagogy in search for monetary benefits. Another group of skilled teachers being replaced by an administrative body. The outcome for students will be dire.
Art exists for the sake of art, not profit.
Travesty! Education is not a corporation
how can you possibly think part time and itinerant providers can delivery the same education. You. Have to ask what qualification the people making this decision have!?
I thought Unitec was above this sort of thing...
A pathetic prioritising of profit over people.
I did not ever believe I would live in a time of seeing the casualization of teaching in our country. This Government is killing a profession that is world renound. NZ teachers are sought world wide because we a good at what we do in the structure of past decades.
Stinginess is never the way to growth in any instance
This is just too ridiculous to contemplate! The so called industry professionals are sitting in that room! Are they blind?!
This is just too ridiculous to contemplate! These so called 'industry
Please re-think this decision. I believe it will be harmful to Unitec and diminish the value of the degree former students have achieved.
This situation has become known to me in Europe and it is really the worst PR for the health of NZ arts that could be invented. Reconsideration is possible. Suggest doing this immediately.
I studied in 1998 and am now running a fashion brand in London. My degree has got me where I am. do not make this mistake and hinder potential future creatives. who will bring the experience home.
Over 15 years (including a year at Unitec) I've taught hundreds of industry practitioners who have returned to education because they found that after a period of time their practice plateaued and they sought a space to reflect on their work in a critical way in order to remake their practice into something that will sustain them through the next stage of their careers. Under this model, industry providers who are largely looking to train students for entry-level positions will provide instruction that will turn out to wear out its usefulness after a student has spent a few years, and at that point they will have to find some other place to study, rather than having a degree that prepares them for life. The idea that institutes of technology teach "doing" while universities teach "thinking" died in the 1980s, and this distinction is particularly false for the creative arts where doing is a form of thinking, requiring critical reflection on rapidly changing genres of production. It is hard not to see this move as stemming from a belief that the best West Auckland students should hope for is a second-tier life in the creative sector. Shame!
Many wonderful teachers, artists, and industry professionals are being lost by Unitec in the name of some unfounded experiment. This needs to be completely reconsidered, for the sake of those professionals, and all of the students whose careers start with real teachers and real artists.