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Arts and humanities

August 2024

  • Bletchley Park mansion in Buckinghamshire, England, home of the British code breakers during the second world war.

    Why humanities are vital, not just science

  • The number of pupils picking exclusively Stem subjects has doubled to 14% from 7% in 2014-15.

    A-level students choosing narrower range of subjects after Gove changes

July 2024

  • ‘We need a cultural economy that can sustain a career in the arts’ … Bayadère: The Ninth Life by Shobana Jeyasingh.

    ‘The arts stop us killing each other’: stars tell Labour how to rescue Britain’s downtrodden culture

    Steve McQueen, Tracey Emin, Steve Coogan, Adjoa Andoh, Danny Dyer, Jesse Darling and many more spell out what must be done to restore Britain’s cultural lifeblood, from ending elitism to supercharging libraries – and flooding schools with music
  • Stevie Van Zandt sat at a table talking to a child

    Rock star Stevie Van Zandt in plea for more arts and music in English schools

    Exclusive: E Street Band and Sopranos star visits south London to see his TeachRock programme in action
  • Bridget Phillipson in her new departmental office.

    Labour’s Bridget Phillipson: ‘I will help working-class pupils defy the odds to succeed – just as I did’

    The new education secretary talks about her background, the ‘incredible state schools’ she went to, and her plans to transform the system

February 2024

  • Schoolchildren visit an art gallery in London.

    Brief letters
    Stem the tide of cuts in artistic education

    Brief letters: Valuing the humanities | Criticising Israel | Deepfake Tories | Cuckoo clock

June 2023

  • Tristram Hunt, is a British historian, broadcast journalist and former politician who has been Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum since 2017.

    My school is getting creative with a private partnership for its arts provision

    Letter: The head of a state school describes how his students are teaming up with their counterparts at a nearby private school
  • University students on campus, University of East Anglia, UEA, Norwich, Norfolk England UK<br>DFD3HP University students on campus, University of East Anglia, UEA, Norwich, Norfolk England UK

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

    Editorial: Ministers are ultimately responsible for weakening humanities courses in universities. They are taking the country backwards

    • ‘Horrible’ disparity emerging in cultural education in schools, says V&A head

    • Labour accuses UK government of ‘stifling children’s creativity’

    • Languages and creative arts losing favour with GCSE and A-level students

August 2022

  • Clockwise from top left: Andrew O’Hagan, Jeffrey Boakye, Alex Chesterfield, Sarah Waters and Tulip Siddiq.

    What an English degree did for me, by Tulip Siddiq, Sarah Waters and more

    As universities close their English literature courses, we celebrate 40 influential British graduates

June 2022

  • Philip Pullman

    Philip Pullman leads outcry after Sheffield Hallam withdraws English lit degree

  • University student studying in the college library.

    English literature graduates: what did you gain from your degree?

November 2021

  • Michael Rosen

    Letter from a curious parent
    Dear Nadhim Zahawi, children need to express their grief about Covid as well as to ‘catch up’

    Michael Rosen
    The arts, squeezed from the curriculum, could offer a chance for pupils to explore their feelings and worries

August 2021

  • The Whitworth gallery.

    Manchester University puts Palestinian solidarity statement back in gallery

    Statement on ‘ethnic cleansing’ of Palestinians reinstated after complaint led to it being removed

July 2021

  • Boy playing saxophone

    ‘Creativity crisis’ looms for English schools due to arts cuts, says Labour

    Number of GCSE music and drama students fell by a fifth over last decade, research finds

May 2021

  • girl playing the piano

    A proper appreciation of arts degrees

    Letters: Lesley Barnes, Michael J Walsh and Marion Hine on the importance of the arts and humanities
  • Barbara Ellen

    How creative of the Tories to invent a culture war to disguise arts cuts

    Barbara Ellen
    Everyone is the poorer when scientists are pitted against artists by the morally bankrupt
  • A public ballet class takes place in the Ballroom at the Royal Festival Hall

    The Guardian view on arts education cuts: we don’t need no philistines

    Editorial: Removing funding from university arts courses signals that they don’t matter. Ministers couldn’t be more wrong
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