Staff seek more time, details to change School of Music model
Emma Macdonald Senior staff at the Australian National University School of Music have called on Vice-Chancellor Ian Young to give them until July next year to come up with a consultative and viable model for the...
Name drop: Manhattan isolates ANU
Emma Macdonald The Manhattan School of Music has condemned the Australian National University's plan to axe staff and funding for the School of Music - asking that its name not be used in association with the cuts.
Music school's sour note
Emma Macdonald The Manhattan School of Music has contacted the Australian National University to condemn the proposed course changes at the School of Music and to object to its name being used in association with...
Sour note for some as ANU council backs music cuts
Emma Macdonald The Australian National University Council has backed vice-chancellor Ian Young in his bid to cut $1.3 million and 10 academics from the School of Music.
ANU protesters drumming in message
Emma Macdonald Musical protests intensified at the Australian National University yesterday as students affected by proposed cuts to the School of Music disrupted a leadership conference at University House with a...
Govt told 'offer cash carrot to graduates'
Emma Macdonald The federal government should consider offering maths and science graduates $10,000 cash incentives to become teachers, according to Australia's Chief Scientist, Professor Ian Chubb.
ANU boss faces more discord in school row
Emma Macdonald Australian National University academics have expressed a motion of no confidence in Vice-Chancellor Ian Young over planned cutbacks at the School of Music.
Fanfare: Canberrans rally for music school
Emma Macdonald In the biggest event ever staged at Llewellyn Hall, more than 1500 Canberrans packed the main venue and spilled over into another hall last night at a free concert in support of the embattled ANU...
Tourists turning off Parliament House
Emma Macdonald Parliament House is on the skids as a tourist destination, with half the number of tourists stopping in for a visit now than when it first opened in 1988.
Music school thrown lifeline
Emma Macdonald A decision to halve the amount of one-on-one tuition to School of Music students has been emphatically reversed by Australian National University Vice-Chancellor Ian Young - as Canberra's business...
School of Music discord a sour note for Sam
Emma Macdonald Eleven-year-old Sam MacLennan is the human face behind the fiscal arguments to cut jobs and funding to the School of Music.
Infamous Canberra killing to be made into film
Ewa Kretowicz, Emma Macdonald Joe Cinque's death in 1997 at the hands of his lover, ANU law student Anu Singh, was one of the territory's most infamous murder trials and the sordid tale is now one step closer to becoming a...
ANU changes its tune
Emma Macdonald, Uma Patel Australian National University management has backed away from its plans to ''spill'' the positions of 32 of its tenured and permanent academic and administrative staff at the School of Music, bowing...
Top pianist at one with ANU protesters
Emma Macdonald One of Australia's most prominent pianists delighted in the music which resounded across the ANU campus yesterday.
School of Music head takes indefinite leave as cuts issue rages
Emma Macdonald School of Music head Professor Adrian Walter has taken an indefinite leave of absence from his job after escalating tensions between Australian National University management and staff and students...
ANU Music head on indefinte leave as tension builds
Emma Macdonald The Australian National University's School of Music head Professor Adrian Walter has taken an indefinite leave of absence from his job following escalating tensions between university management and...
Humphries accuses govt of running down national institutions
Emma Macdonald, Megan Doherty Arts Minister Simon Crean has defended the federal government's spending on Canberra's national institutions, saying funding shortfalls were due to depreciation and internal revenue drops - not the...
PS agencies, institutions to bear the brunt of cuts
Emma Macdonald, Peter Jean The ACT receives slim pickings in new Commonwealth budget spending this year and instead will be hit by thousands of public service job losses and tens of millions of dollars in cuts to operating...
Watershed year for capital's business sector as GST pool dries up
Emma Macdonald, Peter Jean The federal budget has deleted $34.5 million from this year's ACT budget bottom line in the national carve-up of the GST.
Budget hits Canberra hard as 4000 jobs axed
Emma Macdonald, Peter Jean The ACT receives slim pickings in new Commonwealth Budget spending this year and instead will be hit by thousands of public service job losses and tens of millions of dollars in cuts to operating...
