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• The Guardian view on universities: arts cuts are the tip of an iceberg | Editorial

  26-06-2023 20:17
  
  Ministers are ultimately responsible for weakening the arts and humanities. They are taking the country backwardsThe announcement that the University of East Anglia is to cut 31 arts and humanities posts – out of a total of 36 academic job cuts – has rightly prompted anger as well as dismay. UEA became a literary flagship among the new universities that opened in the 1960s. This year is its 60th birthday, and since 1970 it has been home to one of the most famous creative writing cour
  
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• Osman Durrani obituary

  26-06-2023 19:21
  
  My former colleague Osman Durrani, who has died aged 77, was a scholar of German literature and culture with a broad range of research interests. He wrote books on Goethe, Faust and the Bible (1977) and Faust: Icon of Modern Culture (2004), and another on fictions of Germany in the modern novel. He also edited an anthology of German Romantic poetry and had a collection of his poems, After Sunset, published in 1978.There was more to Osman’s range than classical literature, though. He was a
  
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• Did you solve it? The simple question almost everyone gets wrong

  26-06-2023 17:56
  
  The answers to today’s stencil stumpersEarlier today I set you these six stencil puzzles, based on a IQ test for children devised by the American psychologist Grace Arthur in the 1920s.In each puzzle there is a patterned square at the top. The challenge is to work out how to create this square by placing some of the available stencils and coloured blocks on top of each other. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Horrible’ disparity emerging in cultural education in schools, says V&A head

  26-06-2023 15:26
  
  Speaking at launch of UK’s ‘first museum created with and for young people’, Tristram Hunt said it could help fill gapA “horrible disparity” is opening between state and private schools in the provision of creative education, the director of the V&A, one of the country’s leading museums, has said.Speaking at the launch of the Young V&A museum, aimed at children from birth to 14 years, Tristram Hunt said creative education was being downgraded or exclud
  
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• Can you solve it? The simple question almost everyone gets wrong

  26-06-2023 08:12
  
  The stencil puzzle that revolutionised IQ testingUPDATE: The answers can be read hereToday’s puzzles are an intelligence test for children invented a century ago by an American psychologist, Grace Arthur.You will be presented with a patterned square. The challenge is to work out how to create this square by placing some of the available stencils and coloured blocks on top of each other. Continue reading...
  
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• The backlash: how slavery research came under fire – podcast

  26-06-2023 06:00
  
  Read more in this series: Cotton CapitalMore and more institutions are commissioning investigations into their historical links to slavery – but the fallout at one Cambridge college suggests these projects are meeting growing resistance Continue reading...
  
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