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UCA Rochester Fashion Design Graduate Wins International Competition

By jayenolan at 12:57 on 08/01/12

Lyudmilla Lane, a recent graduate from UCA Rochester has won the Who's Next/Arts Thread Fashion Graduate Competition 2011. One of ten winners who triumphed over entries from more than 50 colleges worldwide, Lyudmilla will showcase her collection at the world-famous WHO'S NEXT Prêt-à-Porter trade show in Paris, from 21-24 January. Lyudmila, who was also a Gold Award finalist at London's Graduate Fashion Week this year,...
UCA Students Turner Gallery and TV Opportunities

By jayenolan at 11:22 on 15/12/11

Fashion students from UCA at Rochester will be exhibiting their work in a free live fashion event called Strut at the Turner Contemporary tomorrow. The Margate gallery hosts its Late Night Live event monthly, when it remains open till 10pm, and students from the Fashion Design and Textiles: Print courses have created a collection of garments and accessories inspired by the Nothing in the World But Youth exhibition for the extravaganza,...
How true are the truancy figures in Medway's schools?

By jayenolan at 14:27 on 09/11/11

There's quiet dissent among parents of school age children, who feel they're unfairly penalised when requesting time off for their children in term time, especially when their child normally attends school regularly. It would seem that parents' ideas of what constitutes truancy are completely different to those of a head teacher. Across Medway, during the Autumn Term 2010 and Spring Term 2011, there were 2,411 children absent from...
UCA Rochester's Imagineering Masterclass at Canterbury Anifest 2011

By jayenolan at 19:05 on 24/09/11

UCA Rochester's BA (Hons) CG Arts & Animation course will be holding an interactive workshop at the Canterbury Anifest, to reveal how your imagination is just as important as your sketching and computer skills. The Imagineering Masterclass will run from 1.30pm-3pm on Saturday 1 October and will also feature additional input from Samy Fecih, who was a CGI animator on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Parts 1 &2. He'll also...
Success for UCA Rochester at Pewter Awards!

By jayenolan at 16:59 on 18/09/11

The University for the Creative Arts at Rochester had their best ever set of results recently at the prestigious Pewter Live Awards, which honour the country's top pewter designers and craftspeople. Third-year SGJ student, Richard Gamester, won the Decorative Arts category for a collection of pewter condiment pourers encased in Finnish soapstone and said: "It means a lot to win this award as I have worked hard throughout...

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Another Accolade for Max from Rochester

By jayenolan

Max's film is now also being featured in the Royal Academy of Arts' prestigious Summer Exhibition....

By jayenolan at 16:11 on 10/04/11

An award winning student from Rochester has picked up another award, this time at the 2011 National Student Film Festival, for Best Experimental Film. Max Kimber, who is in the final year of her BA (Hons) Fine Art degree at UCA Canterbury, has already picked up several accolades this year, including the Grand Jury award at the Exposures Student Festival in November. Her short film Cusp examines the tenuous nature of life...
UCA Response to Browne Review

By jayenolan

UCA have just released a statement confirming that they will be increasing their tuition fees to...

By jayenolan at 10:59 on 12/10/10

Professor Elaine Thomas, Vice-Chancellor of the University for the Creative Arts (UCA), has issued the following statement regarding the Browne Review: "The University for the Creative Arts has mixed views about Lord Browne's recommendations to either increase tuition fees or remove the cap to let university's set their own. "On the one hand, we acknowledge that, in the current economic climate, a review of HE finding is necessary and...
UCA Rochester students customising boiler suits for James May's Man Lab

By jayenolan

Gold Award finalist Lyudmila Lane from UCA Rochester can be proud to say she was one of the top ten...

By jayenolan at 23:20 on 07/06/11

TV presenter James May has asked students from UCA Rochester to help him out for a new BBC programme. The Top Gear favourite challenged fashion students at UCA Rochester to customise a collection of boiler suits - which he believes are the only outfit a man needs – for the new series of James May's Man Lab. Fashion Design Course Leader, Donna Ives said: "Working with James May and his show was a really exciting experience...
Governments Freeze on New School Buildings to Affect Rochester and Strood?

By jayenolan

Here's further news of the building work beginning on the six Medway schools, including All Faiths...

By jayenolan at 16:11 on 06/07/10

With news that the latest cuts are to the rebuilding and re-vamping of many schools, the future of Brompton, Strood and the Bishop of Rochester Academies are now under review. The Strood Academy Principal, Richard Hart, has issued the following statement on their website: "The government have announced deep cuts to the Building Schools for the Future programme. In Medway, all three new academy projects have been categorised as...
Row over ‘Mickey Mouse GCSEs’ and ‘sour grapes’

By MedMel

Another detrimental effect of league tables. Everyone involved should just concentrate on the...

By Rochester People at 08:00 on 04/03/11

AN ASTONISHING row has erupted between the headmasters of Medway's two poshest schools, over the latest Government league table results. David Craggs, head of Gad's Hill, Higham, has accused Dr Ian Walker, his opposite number at King's School in Rochester, of "sour grapes" after he complained to Advertising Standards Agency about the findings. Mr Craggs said mention had been made in the national media as "the country's top...