College courses based on Swift and other pop stars grow quickly in US, promising academic value for instructors battling to maintain weakened attention spans
The artistic team behind the unsettling production explain why they wanted to explore the psychology of the country’s biggest biomedical research scandal
The UK’s first Palestinian vice-chancellor discusses proving the value of creative degrees in a hostile climate, how to internationalise rural towns and what growing up with nine siblings can teach you about academic life
Resistance to the knowledge generated by science will only be overcome with the help of the humanities. But what can universities do to bridge C. P. Snow’s famous divide between these fields, which endures to this day?
Guitarist who found fame with the Futureheads has set up a degree course with Sunderland to give north-eastern students a taste of music industry and campus life
High-profile figures criticise university’s plans for large cuts to arts and humanities, which it says are necessary because of the pandemic and low student numbers
Dread of ‘selling out’ and heroic figure of ‘struggling artist’ cause many creative arts graduates to persist with dead-end jobs rather than maximising their skills in alternative careers, says Martha Bloom
The Holberg prizewinner describes how she forged a new discipline in response to the ‘theoretically thin’ and ‘historically unimaginative’ art history she was trained in
The ‘transvestite potter’ is used to creating a stir, but is his freewheeling approach a benefit or a curse when it comes to being a university chancellor? And should art schools still tolerate students like him? Matthew Reisz fires the questions