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Dateline: 14th July, 2011
Drama Schools to Charge Top Fees According to a report in The Stage, many of theUK's top drama and performing arts schools are to charge the top fee of £9,000 a year for their undergraduate courses. They include Central School of Speech and Drama, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, Rose Bruford College and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance as well as the schools associated with the Conservatoire for Dance and Drama: Bristol Old Vic Theatre school, Central School of Ballet, Circus Space, LAMDA, London Contemporary Dance School, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance, and RADA. According to the paper, East 15, Drama Centre and Guildford School of Acting are expected to follow. The Office for Fair Access expects that financial support arrangements such as busaries and scholarhsips will mean that "significantly fewer than half" of students will pay more than £6,000. The Office for Fair Access (OFFA) is an independent, non-departmental public body established under the Higher Education Act 2004 to help promote and safeguard fair access to higher education. English universities and colleges offering full-time undergraduate higher education courses must have an Access Agreement approved by OFFA in order to charge fees above £6,000 from 2012-13. Access Agreements set out the access measures that universities and colleges will put in place. In 2012-13, these measures include: additional expenditure on outreach activities (e.g. summer schools, mentoring, after-school tuition and links with schools and colleges in disadvantaged areas); financial support for students including fee waivers, bursaries, scholarships, and support under the National Scholarship Programme; and additional expenditure on activities to support student retention and success. Sir Graeme Davies, Director of Fair Access, said, "Our assessment of the Access Agreements submitted to us has been a thoroughly rigorous and robust process. In some cases we were unhappy with the first draft we received but institutions responded positively and after a period of scrutiny and negotiation 139 Access Agreements now meet our conditions. "These Agreements represent a considerable commitment by universities and colleges to improving access for students who are under-represented in higher education and where appropriate, improving retention and student success. "I am particularly pleased by the planned additional annual investment of £50 million in outreach activities to raise aspirations and attainment among potential applicants from under-represented groups." Dame Judi Dench commented to The Stage, "It’s desperate for young people coming into the profession. I don’t know how they are going to do it."
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