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Welcome to the Graduate Web Site for past students,
staff and friends of Some of you may remember the ‘Old Students Association’ with its famous ‘Pure Nostalgia’ magazine which ran for nearly ten years through the 1980s, keeping up to date with ex-students and staff. Nowadays the old ‘Department’ is said to be no more, re-configured as the larger curriculum area of Creative Industries, Business and Community. Rest assured however, for the great spirit of the ‘Department’ lives on and hopefully and unashamedly will be evident within this, the latest project to ensure we keep track of some of the successes, adventures or simply life experiences of the many hundreds of young people who spent some of their most important years here at Salisbury. The next job is for you to check through the class lists. If you spot any errors or omissions please let us know, some of the information we have relating to some of the early classes is more than a little faded!! We are having particular difficulty with details for the many day-release classes so your help with those would be much appreciated. To conclude, a few facts and figures: Professional courses in Photography and Film started in about 1958 as part-time study, primarily to meet demand from the Ministry of Defence establishments on Salisbury Plain. The new specialist lecturer appointed to run the course was Derek Stirling who led the Department for 33 years until taking over as College Principal just before his retirement in 1992. Full-time courses began in 1963 and expanded steadily in the following decades. Currently there are about 100 full time students studying Photography, Film & TV on HND, PQE and Bachelor of Arts courses. In 1999, 30 students graduated with a BA (Hons) Degree in Photography, Film and TV from Salisbury College and attended a ceremony in the Cathedral. This is now an annual event. In 2006 the guest of honour was the famous landscape photographer and ex-student, Charlie Waite. Look through the early class lists and you will see that there were few girls studying this subject, by the mid 1990s the gender balance amongst first years was almost equal. Projects involving film were included for all students in the early days and only a handful went on to specialise in their third year. Currently, approximately 30% of our full time students choose to follow the separate Film and Television pathway from the outset of the course. The 'Department' began life in 1958 as the School of Photography at the College of Art. Since then it has been named (listed in more or less in the right order):
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