Damn, classics and philosophy and history on the chopping block, no less.
Didn’t most of the newer universities come out of the polytechnic system? A return to fewer degree’s might not be the worst thing ever, as long as the almost de facto requirement for them by employers goes as well. Mind you, a return to employers training staff wouldn’t be that bad either.
Oh the humanities!
Kind of sad watching our HE system crumble in real terms. People always have lots to say on it but never seem to be particularly in touch with how the University sector actually works or how things get funded.
Wow, chucking classics, philosophy and history for job related degrees.
Cool, I eagerly await history repeating itself in about thirty years.
whats the opposite of a renaissance
This is such a shame. I’ve always had a passion for subjects like literature, classics, philosophy and history. I don’t know what the University of Roehampton is like but is this really just a cost-saving measure? I thought that humanities disciplines are actually cheaper to run so I doubt that this really will help in the long run.
For some universities I feel like some of these need modernising rather than scrapping. I don’t think anyone is going to look down on someone who studied traditional disciplines at Oxbridge but other universities need to teach students how to apply their skills/subjects outside of an academic context.
University is over-valued. Most of my time there was spent using the Internet to study anyway, it wasn’t worth the debt really.
Edit: I wonder who downvoted this and why? They can’t have gone to university if they don’t know that it’s self-study and mostly done online….
The university sector will shrink over the next decade as the declining UK birthrate works its way through the system. More closures, mergers, and downsizing are inevitable.
9 comments
Damn, classics and philosophy and history on the chopping block, no less.
Didn’t most of the newer universities come out of the polytechnic system? A return to fewer degree’s might not be the worst thing ever, as long as the almost de facto requirement for them by employers goes as well. Mind you, a return to employers training staff wouldn’t be that bad either.
Oh the humanities!
Kind of sad watching our HE system crumble in real terms. People always have lots to say on it but never seem to be particularly in touch with how the University sector actually works or how things get funded.
Wow, chucking classics, philosophy and history for job related degrees.
Cool, I eagerly await history repeating itself in about thirty years.
whats the opposite of a renaissance
This is such a shame. I’ve always had a passion for subjects like literature, classics, philosophy and history. I don’t know what the University of Roehampton is like but is this really just a cost-saving measure? I thought that humanities disciplines are actually cheaper to run so I doubt that this really will help in the long run.
For some universities I feel like some of these need modernising rather than scrapping. I don’t think anyone is going to look down on someone who studied traditional disciplines at Oxbridge but other universities need to teach students how to apply their skills/subjects outside of an academic context.
University is over-valued. Most of my time there was spent using the Internet to study anyway, it wasn’t worth the debt really.
Edit: I wonder who downvoted this and why? They can’t have gone to university if they don’t know that it’s self-study and mostly done online….
The university sector will shrink over the next decade as the declining UK birthrate works its way through the system. More closures, mergers, and downsizing are inevitable.