Surfing the net

I've been surfing the net the past hour or so trying find out some information about curators.. and i've just stumbled across something on the 'Royal College of Art' website that you can actually take a course on it !

Why the course was established?

Curators of contemporary art in Britain have in the past relied for their training on experience gained through employment. Neither art history nor fine art courses provide a wide-ranging consideration of contemporary art which also includes study of critical practice and theory, and detailed understanding of how art institutions are structured and administered.

The MA course was established in 1992, co-funded by the Royal College of Art and the Arts Council of Great Britain. It was the first postgraduate programme in Britain to specialise in curatorial practice as it relates to contemporary art. The course is now funded by Arts Council England, and in 2001 the course title was amended to Curating Contemporary Art, more accurately to reflect the content and primary focus of the programme