Regional art schools: a model for survival and success

Abstract

The merger of many creative arts schools into universities under the Unified National System of universities in Australia in the late 1980s and early 1990s brought about major changes to both the schools and the universities, some positive and some negative … For some universities it was a case of the “poor cousins coming to stay” and “another hungry mouth to feed,” as the schools brought little in the way of research resources with them. In addition, many universities were having to operate their research programmes with reduced funds.