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Drama Centre London (often abbreviated as Drama Centre) was a British drama school in King's Cross, London, where it moved in 2011 after a major reshaping of the University of the Arts London. It was part of Central Saint Martins, a constituent college of the university. [1] Following a review in 2020, the school closed with the graduation of ...
- 'Disproportionate' Complaints
- Students ‘Protected’ Staff
- Conservatoire Culture
- ‘Isolated and Entrenched’
- Financially Unsustainable
Each group’s inability to comprehend the other’s core concerns created “two distinct cultures within the one organisation,” reviewer Chris McIntyre wrote. A tendency among DCL staff to be “resistant to and dismissive of” normal communication and quality assurance practices exacerbated the “disproportionate” number of complaints from students. UAL i...
Despite the number of complaints, McIntyre found many students preferred staff at DCL to the wider UAL establishment. Students had an “arguably overly close relationship” with DCL staff and used satisfaction surveys to “protect” them from CSM and the university at large. One DCL student told ArtsProfessional she was “incredibly satisfied” with her ...
UAL believes DCL’s conservatoire-style training doesn’t reflect the direction contemporary creative arts education is heading in. Its own evaluation, run alongside McIntyre’s, says students were “encouraged to build intensive relationships within the group and consider themselves as an ensemble of actors,” and it was normal to work together beyond ...
DCL staff became isolated from the wider university and “consolidated solely around the conservatoire identity”, thinking that senior managers within CSM did not “fundamentally believe” in their work. The independent review said staff became defensive when problems were raised and resisted strategic actions to improve its processes: “This has led t...
UAL was subsidising DCL’s acting degrees more than any other course across the university, providing about £9000 per student on top of tuition fees. A viability exercise conducted by UAL alongside McIntyre’s review said DCL spent £743,000 more than it earned and was “unsustainable going forward”. The university’s decision in October to suspend recr...
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Drama Centre London (often abbreviated as Drama Centre) was a British drama school in King's Cross, London, where it moved in 2011 after a major reshaping of the University of the Arts London. It was part of Central Saint Martins, a constituent college of the university. In March 2020, UAL announced that the Drama Centre London would close when the current students had completed their courses ...
The Drama Centre London was founded in 1963 by a breakaway group of teachers and students from the Central School of Speech and Drama, led by John Blatchley, Yat Malmgren and Christopher Fettes. The school was a member of Drama UK and its undergraduate acting course was accredited by Drama UK.
- Rathna Ramanathan
- Urban
- Granary Building, 1 Granary Square, King's Cross, London, N1C 4AA
- University of the Arts London
Both believed in the fundamental importance of learning through making and were known for their radical approach to art and design – values which remain at the core of our teaching today. In 1989, the two colleges merged to form Central Saint Martins. We welcomed Drama Centre London in 1999 and the Byam Shaw School of Art in 2003.
Oct 30, 2020 · In this episode Robert discusses the Drama Centre with Annie Tyson who describes the four pillars of teaching that underpinned the foundation of an acting conservatoire which, along perhaps with the short lived Old Vic School of Michel Saint Denis, could comfortably stake a claim to be the most radically influential institution in the history of professional actor training in the United Kingdom.
