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   What staff, students, and community members have told the ANU Vice-Chancellor about his plans for the School of Music

   Posted 28 May 2012 by Jane Maze (ACT Division)

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   Submissions on the ANU School of Music.

   Published: 28 May, 2012
   Tags: School of Music, ANU,
   

   Some submissions from staff, students and community members on proposed changes at the ANU School of Music.

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   NTEU Submission: School of Music Managing Change Proposal

   Posted 25 May 2012 by Jane Maze (ACT Division)

   The NTEU ACT Division Secretary has just sent this submission on ANU's School of Music change proposal to the Vice-Chancellor.

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   NTEU Submission: School of Music Managing Change Proposal

   Published: 25 May, 2012
   Tags: ANU, School of Music
   

   The submission was sent with this covering email: Dear Professor Young Attached is the formal NTEU response to the School of Music Managing Change proposal. As you'll note, we have analysed the proposal carefully and believe it is unreasonable, u

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   Union disappointed at failure of ANU Council to act on School of Music debacle

   Posted 25 May 2012 by Jane Maze (ACT Division)

   The NTEU ACT Division has just issued the following Media Release in response to Chancellor Gareth Evans' announcement this afternoon that 'Council expressed its full support for the change process ...

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   'Serenade' the ANU Council

   Posted 24 May 2012 by Jane Maze (ACT Division)

   Tonight at 7 pm there will be a musical vigil entitled 'Serenade' at University House while the ANU Council eats inside. Interestingly, Chancellor Gareth Evans has invited the School of Music String ...

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   ANU members decide on further action to protect School of Music

   Posted 24 May 2012 by Jane Maze (ACT Division)

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   ANU E-bulletin: Loss of confidence in V-C

   Published: 24 May, 2012
   Tags: ANU, School of Music, members meeting, E-Bulletin
   

   Report of a mass meeting of ANU NTEU Branch members on 23 May 2012.

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   School of Music: Definite threats, vague promises.

   Posted 18 May 2012 by Jane Maze (ACT Division)

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   ANU e-bulletin: Music: Definite threats, vague promises.

   Published: 18 May, 2012
   Tags: ANU, E-Bulletin, School of Music, cuts, industrial action, Industrial Dispute, member meeting,
   

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   ANU rally to protest School of Music cuts - photo gallery

   Posted 17 May 2012 by Jane Maze (ACT Division)

   If you didn't get to be at one of the best rallies ever, you can get a flavour of it here.

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   ANU School of Music rally

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     The rally began with bands playing all over campus, showing the depth and breadth of skill produced by the School.
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     Brass band gathers up protesters and leads them to Union Court.
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     Brass band and drummers and dancing, rhythmically clapping protesters.
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     Gary France drumming up the intensity.
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     Are we having fun yet? Oh, yes.
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     Jazz band leader adds swing to the chant of 'Save Our School'.
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     Musicians of very different styles join in protest.
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     The NTEU labelled the VC's planned ANU cuts 'Cold, not bold.' The meme has been taken further.
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     Music School choir enchants the protestors.
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     The drumming, chanting crowd fell silent to listen to the exquisite singing of a School of Music choir.
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     NTEU-banner-holding protester masked in the spirit of festive protest.
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     ACT NTEU Secretary Stephen Darwin inspired the crowd with a fiery rejection of cuts to the School of Music.
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     Greens MLA Caroline Le Couteur addresses the rally.
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     Federal police attended but stayed in the background of a peaceful rally.
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     Protestors listening to speeches of support for the School of Music (Not, as this photo might suggest, worshipping a tree).
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     It was a huge rally of about a thousand people.
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     Jack Hobbs, ANU Students' Association's Music Rep, addressing the crowd.
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     Malba Barahona carrying the NTEU banner in the march to the Chancery.
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     Annie Carroll carrying the other end of the banner!
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     Yes, we're definitely having fun now.
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     Protestors dancing outside the Chancelry.
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     ANUSA President Dallas Proctor heading into the Chancelry (with Music Reps Jack Hobbs and Yasmin Masri) to present a petition signed by over 21,000 people.

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   ACT Division Secretary challenges ANU's V-C in Canberra Times today

   Posted 17 May 2012 by Jane Maze (ACT Division)

   ACT Division Secretary Stephen Darwin challenges ANU's Vice-Chancellor to fight for, rather than fight with, the University - starting by withdrawing the ill-conceived proposals ...

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   How you can comment on proposed cuts to the ANU School of Music

   Posted 17 May 2012 by Jane Maze (ACT Division)

   Many members of the NTEU, ANU staff and students and the Canberra community have written to Vice-Chancellor Ian Young via his consultation email line, which is open until 25th May 2012. You ...

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   Stop the cuts at the School of Music

   The management of the Australian National University has announced that all staff of the University's School of Music will be made redundant and required to reapply, if they choose, for a position in the School, with a net loss of ten jobs and no guarantee of re-employment. This is associated with curriculum changes that many students, staff and community members have protested against. The Unviersity has announced no intention to reduce the number of students but rather to increase it, raising questions of what combination of casualisation, increased workloads and offshoring of jobs will be used to handle a student load that has increased while staff numbers are decreased.

   ANU's Vice-Chancellor has opened a consultation email line and has invited community members as well as ANU staff and students to use it to comment on this proposal.

   The NTEU encourages you to let the Vice-Chancellor know your views, and to copy your email to the Union at act@nteu.org.au to ensure accountability of the process. (The Vice-Chancellor refused to share publicly or with the NTEU the comments made on his previous consultation exercise about planned job cuts across ANU.)

   If you wish, you can use the email text here. This email comments primarily on the issue of job cuts. You are welcome to add your comments on any other aspect of the proposed School of Music changes.

   Your email will be automatically copied to act@nteu.org.au. If you prefer to comment privately you can simply send an email to the Vice-Chancellor's comment address, somconsult@anu.edu.au.

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   Your Name*

   Your Email Address*

   Email [Vice-Chancellor Ian Young]?

   Subject*

   Dear [appropriate name will be inserted],

   <div>I believe it is completely unacceptable to sack all academic and general staff in the School of Music using the pretense of a new curriculum. To expect those academics - whose deep musical expertise, teaching experience, and scholarship are what constitutes the School of Music - to be forced to apply for 'new' jobs in the institution which derives its status from their work, expertise, and professional reputations is an insult.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>It is equally unacceptable that experienced administrative and support staff are all to be sacked and required to reapply for their positions. How can the work of administering the School have changed so radically as to require this?</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>I support the NTEU&nbsp;in disputing that this redundancy announcement is even legal, and I endorse the call for the process to be suspended until staff&nbsp;&nbsp;have been properly and genuinely consulted, as they are required to be when significant workplace change is proposed.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The announced curriculum changes appear to involve outsourcing and further casualisation of teaching. I condemn the replacement of ongoing academics by the employment of staff under poorer conditions and pay, merely as it represents a cost saving to the ANU.&nbsp;</div>

   Yours Sincerely,
   

   [Your details]

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    School of Music Protest Jam - Monday 14th May

    Posted 10 May 2012 by Jane Maze (ACT Division)

    The NTEU encourages members to attend the ANU Protest Jam, next Monday 14th May, to protest a threatened restructure involving the sacking of all staff in the School of Music.

    The Protest ...

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