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Article: Art school tutors say red tape is killing creativity Leading lecturers claim culture of bureaucracy and target-setting is strangling Scottish colleges
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- The Sunday Herald
- Article date:
- June 26, 2005
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A CULTURE of bureaucracy and target-setting is destroying
Scotland's internationally renowned art schools, according to two of
the country's leading art tutors.
Sandy Moffat and David Harding, who have 42 years of teaching
experience at Glasgow School of Art (GSA) between them, fear that
unless something is done, a "decadent management structure" will see
"the end of the art school" in Scotland.
Both Moffat, a reputed Scottish artist and outgoing head of
painting and printmaking at GSA, and David Harding, founder and
former head of the institution's groundbreaking environmental art
department, are graduates of Edinburgh College of Art. They have
officiated as external examiners at many of ...