Arts

Play celebrates the turbulent career of a pioneering female astronomer

More sixth-formers choosing to study only STEM or social science subjects, squeezing university arts and humanities departments even harder

Cardiff professor works with comedian to explain how players of BBC quiz show can avoid dreaded ‘brain fry’

College says latest round of cuts will secure its future but academics wonder whether much of what made the institution special will be left

Landmark partnership between two leading colleges will see students able to obtain arts degrees under umbrella body

British Academy report also expresses concern about fall in number of academic staff working in media studies

Booker Prize-winning author is latest arts leader to speak out against job shedding at celebrated university

College courses based on Swift and other pop stars grow quickly in US, promising academic value for instructors battling to maintain weakened attention spans

Harvard campus drama made famous by Bryan Cranston makes European premiere as Gaza protests debate adds fresh relevance

The artistic team behind the unsettling production explain why they wanted to explore the psychology of the country’s biggest biomedical research scandal

University of Limerick president talks about putting in place university-wide structural changes to inspire cross-pollination between disciplines

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

Controversial plays staged at Oxford and Cambridge helped shape the Bard’s depictions of academic life, book claims

Screenings in Nottingham and Edinburgh cancelled but academics claim accusations of transphobia are ‘absurd’

Median age at degree completion shrinks, although share of field’s graduates with job commitment does too, American Academy of Arts and Sciences finds

Whitechapel outpost will focus on creative industries, joining growing list of universities with a presence in UK capital

Scale of redundancies and resignations announced by Wolverhampton far surpasses figure previously expected

Olivier-nominated actress Josette Bushell-Mingo wants to keep pushing hard questions about role of arts in society as leader of London institution

Five departments set to be merged into three, says local union branch

Without practical teaching at their heart, many departments of music technology, drama and dance could face closure, says Ian Pace

UCU ramps up criticism after announcements on cost-cutting programmes

Growth can help arts university deliver access and ‘social purpose’ despite English funding freeze, says v-c, architect of Blair’s HE expansion target

The president of KTH Royal Institute of Technology discusses the fallout of a scientific scandal and immigration rules in Sweden

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?

City state’s first university of the arts to be the more than the sum of its parts

Performance can help explore academic questions, say advocates, but the field still lacks full acceptance in the corridors of power and policymaking

Plans to reduce teaching grant are one of ‘biggest attacks on arts and entertainment in English universities in living memory’

Attacks on the disciplines are ‘source of alarm’, as they are central to employability in teaching ‘how narratives fool us’, THE event hears

Sector leaders say government proposal amounts to ‘a sudden multimillion-pound hit’ for some institutions and criticise decision not to phase changes

Executive chair says scholarship from non-medical subjects will be vital for post-pandemic society

The British artist on working with refugees, the similarities between art and science and growing up next door to Twiggy

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

Former culture secretary and BBC director to succeed Sir Nigel Carrington

The economics are murky but the damage that closing departments will do to universities’ missions is crystal clear, says Peter Tregear

Pandemic forces institutions to respond to practical challenges but also to produce work that addresses crisis and helps forge new forms of art

The Booker-shortlisted author on how much of his campus novel is inspired by real life and whether creative writing can be taught

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

A new research project will draw on academic expertise to ‘reset and reimagine’ cultural life in the UK

Latin American university leaders tell THE summit that countries will need skills of non-science graduates as they recover from coronavirus

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

With a new show in the pipeline, academics have many suggestions for plot lines and pitfalls to avoid

Matthew Reisz talks to Grayson Perry and an academic expert on performance art about the limits of student artistic expression in higher education 

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

Tianjin campus will be first in country to offer US-accredited master of music degree

Writer inspired by her childhood experiences of ‘belonging and not belonging’ is honoured alongside Margaret Atwood

This autumn Chestnut Hill College will host one of the world’s most unusual annual academic conferences

Kathryn M. Rudy considers the huge expenses of doing scholarly work in her field of art history

Matthew Reisz considers the tools we need to explore the wilder shores of performance art

England’s universities minister says arts and humanities must not be marginalised in wake of Augar review

Even in larger institutions with less disciplinary diversity, Dominic Johnson believes we must find ways to nurture the ‘resistant’ potential of art

Students in different cities simultaneously performing version of play interact at six separate points via technology

The Turner prizewinning artist on being part of the UK’s Black Art movement and promoting the contributions of women

Joshua Harmon’s savage play, Admissions, brings to London its tangled emotions unleashed by diversity policies

Weitermachen Sanssouci may be the first film to tackle the woes of research assessment, casualisation and an obsession with student employability

Institutions struggle to cope with changing student tastes, demographic shifts and the difficulty of scaling up their model

Education reforms designed to improve uptake of science subjects may harm them if creativity is not taught, claims V&A director

Director Tom Inns explains how the institution is coping after fire gutted its iconic Mackintosh building

Glasgow School of Art’s historic home at risk of ‘sudden collapse’

Staff ‘heartbroken’ after second fire at art nouveau masterwork in four years