Humanities among degrees being ‘extinguished’ by hard-up universities
•Thousands of academic posts in humanities and social sciences have been cut, leading to concerns about educational cold spots.
•The British Academy warns that the loss of these positions could increase social immobility and limit access to diverse academic fields.
•Redundancies are also affecting traditionally important subjects like business studies, law, and English due to universities' precarious finances.
المصدر: The Guardian World | Source: The Guardian WorldExclusive: Experts fear rise in education ‘cold spots’ and social immobility as 4,000 academic posts lost in one year
Thousands of university job cuts in humanities and social sciences are creating widespread cold spots for languages, classics and theology degrees, the British Academy has warned.
Universities’ finances are so precarious that redundancies are also occurring in business studies, law and English – subjects considered strategically important and traditionally popular courses.
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→Thousands of academic posts in humanities and social sciences have been cut, leading to concerns about educational cold spots.
→The British Academy warns that the loss of these positions could increase social immobility and limit access to diverse academic fields.
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