Sydney College of Arts (pictured) to merge with UNSW Art and Design
Touted as the ‘creation of a leading centre for visual art and design’, the positive tone of today’s announcement that art schools at The University of New South Wales and the University of Sydney are set to merge in 2017, with conversations in play with the National Art School also to ascertain their position, has a darker side of further pull backs to the value placed on arts education.