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Post-16 education must be reformed to tackle damaging arts-science divide

04 Sep 2015

Why is it acceptable to say 鈥淚 never could do maths鈥 but not 鈥淚鈥檝e never read any Shakespeare鈥? It鈥檚 symptomatic of the art-science divide that can only be addressed by reforming our education system, writes Professor Athene Donald from the Department of Physics and Master of Churchill College.

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From Illustrated London News, September 16, 1845

Past versus present in an age of progress: the Victorians

14 Oct 2011

Interdisciplinary research has to be the answer when it comes to understanding the Victorians, writes Professor Simon Goldhill, one of the researchers involved in a 拢1.2 million project on Victorian Britain that is reaching the end of its five-year programme.

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