Readers following your 'Future of Art Education' debate should be aware that the problems facing students and lecturers in fine art are the same or similar to problems faced by students of all the other subjects that require above average amounts of time and space.

My daughter is a dance student and she is finding it impossible to get sufficient access to rehearsal studios. Her college has resorted to a bookings system that has students rehearsing in the middle of the night for ridiculously short periods of time. My son is studying computer game design so I noted with some concern Iain Livingstone's words as quoted in Frederika Whitehead's article (AM318) on the future of the Creative Industries: students wishing to study Computer Game design should take note that such a pivotal figure in the industry felt that 80 out of 84 courses were inadequate. My son seems to have very little access on his course to tutors working within the industry so I feel some empathy towards the parents of art students who may find their children being taught art by tutors who are not artists. It just doesn't make sense.

I hope that the students, their parents and their teachers are aware of this debate and will consider these issues before they apply for courses.

Ruth Sanders, Huddersfield, from the letters page, Art Monthly, September 2008.

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