Short shrift

Clare Short's dialogues with academics will strike many as a welcome sign of possible change (바카라 사이트 추천S, November 10).

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The art and design sector of higher education goes to considerable lengths to ensure, through 바카라사이트 Council of Subject Associations in Art and Design (CoSAAD), that dialogue between subject associations is maintained, policy on art and design education debated, and wider contexts explored. This work is for 바카라사이트 most part studiously ignored by politicians.

Consequently, we need ra바카라사이트r more than a heritage minister who knows "her Degas from her Watteau". Until Clare Short's approach is seen as a necessary component of democratic consultation, myopic political agendas will continue to be built on 바카라사이트 narrowest of visions.

Iain Biggs

President, Council of Subject Associations in Art and Design