Hope for defunded arts courses

A Senate amendment is pressuring the government to offer a reprieve to arts courses which have been excluded from student loans.

6 Dec 2016

Richard Watts

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Photography is one of the courses which may be ineligible for student loans unless the Minister acts; image via www.shutterstock.com.

The Senate has recognised the importance of the Australian arts industry by supporting greater representation of artistic and creative courses on the VET student loans eligible course list.

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts