6/9/2023 0 Comments William Etty by Sarah Burnage![]() What happened at Byam Shaw is, in microcosm, an extreme example of what is happening to our art colleges. ![]() The Byam Shaw has just celebrated its centenary by witnessing its own obliteration. Personally, I was told I was not needed for “unit delivery”. Subsequently, many artists that taught there, along with technicians and administrative and maintenance staff, were cut in a managerial cull. Students supporting the institution in which they studied became a major threat. University of the Arts let the occupation run its course, but later its anger was expressed by destroying any autonomy left for the college. ![]() Foreseeing its destruction, students admirably took over the school, occupying its buildings in February 2009 and proclaiming it the Byam Shaw People’s University in an attempt to save it from annihilation. ![]() Totally inappropriate marking systems were introduced by a clueless management of non-creative number crunchers who wouldn’t have lasted five minutes running a baked bean factory. In the past decade, the school stupidly allowed itself to be absorbed into Central Saint Martins, part of University of the Arts, London. ![]()
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