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• ‘The buildings were a sign of civic pride’: anger as art colleges around the UK close their doors

  17-09-2023 16:00
  
  Colleges that once fostered talent – often from working-class backgrounds – have vanished at an alarming rate. Two beneficiaries of that system are documenting its demiseOn a trip to Norfolk back in 2009, artist and academic Matthew Cornford decided to take a nostalgic look at his old art school. Great Yarmouth College of Art and Design may not have been an elite establishment – one of its best known alumni is Keith Chapman, creator of Bob the Builder – but the grand buil
  
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• UCL East Marshgate review – an inward-looking class act

  17-09-2023 12:00
  
  Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London
  University College London’s flexible new campus, designed by Stirling prize-winners Stanton Williams, is all complex drama within, yet its forbidding exterior sits somewhat uneasily with its Olympic Park neighbours – which will soon include the V&A, BBC, Sadler’s Wells and moreUniversity College London, nearly 200 years old, consistently ranking among the top 10 universities in the world, and one of the biggest in the UK, is embarking on
  
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