Royal Academy of Arts with an additional three in 1862. Today some 60 students study in the Schools on a three-year postgraduate course. The programme is focused on studio-based practice across all fine art media. The studios accommodate a wide variety of disciplines, including painting, sculpture, print, installation, and time-based and digital media. Selection of candidates is based on evidence of individual ability and commitment, with an emphasis on potential for further development across the three-year course. Students are given the opportunity twice each year to show their work in the Royal Academy. In 2011 Tracey Emin was appointed Professor of Drawing, and Fiona
Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry The Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry (German: "Königliche-Sächsische Forstakademie") in Tharandt, Saxony, near Dresden, was founded by silviculturalist Heinrich Cotta in 1811. Established in conjunction with the school, and later integrated with it, was the Forstbotanischer Garten Tharandt, one of the oldest arboreta in the world. Its legacy lives on today as a campus of the Dresden University of Technology and site of that institution's Department of Forestry. In Saxony, as in other parts of Germany, there were concerns that forests were being over-exploited, and needed to be properly managed. In 1810 Cotta was appointed