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Goldsmiths University accused of ‘quietly killing off’ queer and black history degrees

Exclusive: The institution insists it is ‘committed’ to providing the programmes, despite making key staff redundant

The Independent UK

Goldsmiths’ redundancy plan shows a lack of commitment to Black British literature

Letters: A group of academics express their concerns that Prof Deirdre Osborne, the co-founder of the MA Black British literature course at Goldsmiths, is facing the threat of redundancy

The Guardian - UK

Goldsmiths University to keep Black British literature course open

Exclusive: Reversal comes after backlash from students and writers including Booker winner Bernardine Evaristo

The Guardian - UK

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‘Our universities are complicit in Gaza — that must stop’: inside London's student protest camps

Following last month’s crackdowns on pro-Palestine student protests in America, a new wave of student campus occupations are springing up across the UK. We met activists at UCL, SOAS and Goldsmiths

Evening Standard

Pro-Palestine protests: How some universities reached deals with students

Many campus protesters have taken down Gaza encampments after colleges agreed to consider divestment from Israel.

Al Jazeera

‘There are people in tents writing dissertations’: UK reaches for scale of US campus protests

Pro-Palestine protesters hope encampments at universities will contribute to an ‘international student revolt’

The Guardian - UK

Campus protests over the war in Gaza have gone international

Students in the U.K., France and Mexico have sought to erect what many of them call "solidarity encampments," prompting a variety of responses from university authorities and local law enforcement.

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Goldsmiths students occupy library as US Gaza campus protests spread to London and across UK

Slogans on posters outside the London university building read ‘Shut Down 4 Palestine’ and, controversially, ‘From The River to the Sea’

Evening Standard

The Goldsmiths crisis: how cuts and culture wars sent universities into a death spiral

Arts education is essential – yet on both sides of the Atlantic, the humanities and critical thinking are under attack. With massive redundancies announced at this London institution, is it the canary in the coalmine?

The Guardian - UK

Bernardine Evaristo joins calls to save Goldsmiths’ Black British literature MA

Booker-winning author says course ‘shouldn’t be seen as dispensable’ as university seeks to cut 130 academic jobs

The Guardian - UK

Yinka Shonibare: "The argument that things are safer at the British Museum is a little bit shaky now"

As the British-Nigerian artist’s new Serpentine Gallery show opens he talks about the long arm of colonialism, why art needs to engage, and why the Benin Bronzes should be sent home

Evening Standard

Goldsmiths strikes: Union warns of ‘unprecedented unrest’ as academics vote to strike over job losses

Union says ‘extraordinary’ cuts threaten 130 jobs at London university

Evening Standard

Goldsmiths academics to strike over ‘incomprehensible’ redundancies

Union says cuts will make the creative powerhouse unrecognisable and risk unprecedented industrial unrest

The Guardian - UK

‘Cultural and social vandalism’: job cut plans at Goldsmiths attacked

Union claims up to a quarter of all academic roles at financially pressed London institution face the axe

The Guardian - UK

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The Guardian - UK

Jan Plamper obituary

Other lives: Historian of emotions who took a new approach to studying the past

The Guardian - UK

Jeremy Goring obituary

Other lives: History lecturer who wrote extensively about his native Sussex, including on the religious history of Lewes

Evening Standard

Meet Tatenda Shamiso: the young actor amplifying trans voices on stage

Evening Standard Theatre Award winner for Emerging Talent, Tatenda Shamiso caught the industry's attention earlier this year with his play, No ID. He speaks to Isobel Van Dyke about disappointment in the UK's treatment of the trans community, as well as inspirations and hopes for the future

The Guardian - UK

Benjamin Myers wins 2023 Goldsmiths prize for ‘vital’ novel Cuddy

Award for mould-breaking fiction goes to multi-genre work – ‘part poetry, part electricity’ – retelling the story of Durham Cathedral

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Evening Standard

Artists Rob and Nick Carter: ‘If Warhol was alive he would definitely be using robots’

As they open their exhibition celebrating 25 years of working together, the couple talk about AI versus analogue, and that time Will Self frisbeed an artwork out the window of the Groucho Club

The Guardian - UK

Corey Fah Does Social Mobility by Isabel Waidner review – a surreal journey

The fantastical and the familiar merge in this energetic inquiry into class politics and cultural capital

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Richard Mosse’s cultural highlights

The Irish photographer on the most beautiful film he’s ever seen, a book about utopic desire, and his favourite walk in County Clare – with free tea and cake

Birmingham Post

Record year for UK’s biggest Rolex, OMEGA, Cartier chain

Watches of Switzerland says store openings planned despite ‘challenging trading environment’

Birmingham Post

Goldsmiths CEO Brian Duffy says luxury watch demand still exceeding supply

Total sales for the full year are expected to be between £1.5 and £1.55 billion

Birmingham Post

Big jewellery chains investing in Derbion

Goldsmiths, Beaverbrooks and Ernest Jones are all set to make significant investments this year

Evening Standard

Learn to invest and have amazing sex: how to become a better person in 2023

From self esteem lessons to play workshops — Martha Alexander on the courses that’ll make you superhuman (or at least marginally improved)

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