Dartington College of Arts
The wikipedia says Dartington College of Arts is a specialist arts institution near Totnes, Devon, South West England, specialising in post-dramatic theatre, music, performance writing and visual performance, focusing on a performative and multi-disciplinary approach to the arts. In addition to this, lecturing staff are all in some way active arts practitioners. The college has an international reputation for excellence, and aims to promote a critical self awareness in contemporary arts practice, and as such is firmly entrenched in post-modernism.
Its a bit of a way from home but will give me the chance to learn, get experience and hopefully do some exams too as I have lost impetus in my MCP course right now.
Its a lot of fun here very relaxed, lots of odd muso and other arty farty types and plenty of old hippies. Which is good for me cos they, in general don't have lots of IT knowledge so I am busy with both silly little issues and the larger ones too.
I took a walk yesterday and took some photos by the river Dart which I will post in the future
The main issue here is that University College Falmouth and Dartington College of Arts are due to merge. Merge is the term but it involves moving the Dartington college from Dartington Hall to a new building in Falmouth for the start of 2010 academic year. A lot of the line management has however already moved to Falmouth in advance of this move and it causes disquiet as the usual and well rehearsed ways of doing things have been forced to change.
Hopefully I can remain outside of these politics as much as possible although there are many things changing that will reduce the amount we are able to do from here as Falmouth IT support take over runnign of Active Directory and Management info systems
Still, the merger gives me hope that I can remain here till August 2010 as there will b plenty of IT issues and all the equipment will have to be moved around as well. I shall just carry on with my learning and my exams and hopefully this will be a good place to be in the meantime
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