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Culture targeted under new university cuts plan

ONE of Scotland's leading universities is planning to close its theatre and art gallery, and abolish its post of music director, in radical cuts to its cultural activity.

Strathclyde University is proposing to close its Ramshorn Theatre in July, shut the Collins Gallery, and make Alan Tavener, director of music, redundant.

An internal document passed to The Herald says that “running a theatre and a gallery is not a core activity for the university, particularly given neither is necessary for the delivery of the university’s academic programmes”.