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Petition update, 27 January 2010

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The University of Westminster are proposing to close their highly acclaimed Harrow Ceramics Degree Course. Recruitment of new students has been suspended and there are plans to close the course by 2013, which will coincide with the 50th Anniversary of ceramics teaching at Harrow.

The decision has been made despite the courses’ long held outstanding national and international reputation; first class academic standing and a distinguished assembly of professional expertise including Edmund de Waal, Emmanuel Cooper, Kyra Cane, Professor Christie Brown, Professor Nigel Wood, Steve Buck, Clare Twomey and a roster of world famous ceramicists as both alumni and staff. Its closure has huge significance for British art, craft and design.

We call on the University to reverse this decision, reinstate the recruitment of new students and SAVE HARROW CERAMICS.

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• damon brown
• Mark Scotty
• Roman Loranc
• Marco Cali
• emma harrop
• Michael Portillo
• Stephen Goodwill
• Martin Riggs
• Jeffrey Jones
• Ian Crabbtree
• HARROW
• Katie Moody
• Brian St John
• Hiromi Nakajiama
• Nick Weeks
• Julia Davy
• Michael Carey-Watts
• Jonathan Slater
• eric moss
• KYRA CANE
• STEVE BUCK
• PROF.CHRISTIE BROWN
• PROF. NIGEL WOOD
• PROF. EDMUND DE WAAL
• CLARE TWOMEY
• PHILIP LEE
• Julia Herod
• CARINA CISCATO
• vikki weston
• Peter Hale
• Jill Jones
• jane gibson
• Janet Wootton
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• Kenin Vaughan
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• MICHI SUZUKI
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• Eman Yosry
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• WILLIAM WATSON
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• Jonathan Phillips
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• Lady Helen whittington-smyhe
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• chris bramble
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• J HALL
• sue harris
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