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ECA Facebook forum to deal with student grievances »

Edinburgh College of Art students are organising action through Facebook to address concerns following the merger with the University of Edinburgh. A Facebook event page, entitled “ECA Student Forum”, has been created by ECA student presid...

Wed 18 Jan 2012 by Caroline Nguyen | Read more »

Edinburgh colleges begin merger talks »

Edinburgh’s Telford College has entered merger talks with Stevenson College and Jewel & Esk. The move comes after Scottish Ministers urged higher education institutions to become more efficient amid cuts from the Conservative-Lib Dem coaliti...

Wed 30 Nov 2011 by Andrew Barr | Read more »

ECA merger with University of Edinburgh takes effect »

Edinburgh College of Art (ECA)

The University of Edinburgh's merger with Edinburgh College of Art has formally taken effect, two years earlier than originally proposed. The two institutions legally merged on 1 August 2011, meaning that ECA is now part of the university’s...

Wed 14 Sep 2011 by Katie Richardson | Read more »

Edinburgh University and ECA merger officially approved »

Edinburgh College of Art (ECA)

Following final approval from the Scottish Parliament, the merger between the University of Edinburgh and the Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) will officially take effect on 1 August 2011. As the merger approaches, The Journal talked to EUSA president L...

Wed 20 Apr 2011 by Jenny Kassner | Read more »

ECA: Painting over the cracks »

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Senior staff at the Edinburgh College of Art received large increases in pay and pensions even as the troubled art school's finances deteriorated to near-bankruptcy, an investigation by The Journal has found. Financial records show that by the end of ...

Wed 09 Mar 2011 by Marcus Kernohan | Read more »

An artless pretense »

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We report today what we hoped in our first editorial of this academic year was not the case: that it appears the decision to merge the Edinburgh College of Art with the University of Edinburgh was driven primarily by financial instability rather than t...

Wed 09 Mar 2011 | Read more »

ECA principal retires as merger reaches final stages »

Principal of the Edinburgh College of Art Professor Ian Howard, a strong advocate of the merger, has announced his retirement, effective 31 July 2011. The news comes as the merger between the University of Edinburgh and ECA was approved by Michael Rus...

Wed 09 Feb 2011 by Lily Panamsky | Read more »

ECA election to take place despite merger »

The current President of the Edinburgh College of Art Students’ Association, Francesca Miller, has said that whoever is elected to the post following the current elections will play a 'vital' role in shaping the future of the institution. The te...

Wed 09 Feb 2011 by Al Innes | Read more »

Merger proposal to be submitted to Scottish Government »

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The University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) have agreed to merge. ECA’s Board of Governors met on 21 September and agreed to the deal. Six days later, the University Court met and also consented. The full merger proposal docu...

Mon 27 Sep 2010 by Megan Taylor | Read more »

ECA and Edinburgh University set to merge »

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A final decision on proposed plans to merge the Edinburgh College of Art with the University of Edinburgh is likely to be made by the end of the month, three years earlier than expected. The academic institutions and separate students' associations ar...

Wed 15 Sep 2010 by Megan Taylor | Read more »

A marriage of convenience? »

The circumstances of the proposed merger of the University of Edinburgh and the Edinburgh College of Art are not entirely fortuitous. Earlier this summer, we were promised a thorough consultation and told that 2013 was the earliest possible date for a ...

Wed 15 Sep 2010 | Read more »

Francesca Miller's statement »

When the prospect of the merger first emerged last year, former president Jake Rusby made sure students of all years and disciplines were consulted to produce the merger charter. This document highlights thirteen points of concern the students have, a...

Mon 13 Sep 2010 by Megan Taylor | Read more »

ECA and Edinburgh University discuss possible merger »

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Talks are at an advanced stage between Edinburgh College of Art and the University of Edinburgh which could see the two institutions join facilities by 2012. The discussions, aimed at deepening collaborative ties between the two historic institutions,...

Wed 03 Mar 2010 by Ross Haig | Read more »

Good fences make good neighbours »

Good Fences make Good Neighbors

William S. Burroughs, doyen of the beat poets, once said that “in the magical universe, there are no coincidences”. What to make, then, of the improbable confluence of news that the Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) and the University of Edinb...

Wed 03 Mar 2010 | Read more »

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