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Humanities

May 2024

  • Author Bernardine Evaristo has criticised the ‘amputation’ of the Black British literature master's course at Goldsmiths University.

    UK university courses on race and colonialism facing axe due to cuts

    Academics warn loss of higher education arts and humanities courses will harm understanding of racism and imperial history

March 2024

  • Ben Pimlott Building at Goldsmiths

    ‘Cultural and social vandalism’: job cut plans at Goldsmiths attacked

    Union claims up to a quarter of all academic roles at financially pressed London institution face the axe

August 2022

  • Nagma Abdi and Zuhoor Haibe read their A-level results at Ark Putney academy, south-west London.

    This year’s A-level results in England explained in five charts

  • 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

July 2022

  • Kenan Malik

    If education is all about getting a job, the humanities are left just to the rich

    Kenan Malik
  • Buildings at Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, South Yorkshire

    Where will future Tracey Beakers go after arts and humanities courses are axed?

May 2022

  • Teenagers in school uniforms in a drama class

    The threat facing humanities and the arts

    Letters: Drama in schools gives students the opportunity to explore a wide range of issues, says Catherine Griffin, while Sue Jackson points to the favouring of Stem subjects at the expense of humanities in universities

October 2021

  • Bernadine Evaristo

    New university job cuts fuel rising outrage on campuses

    Goldsmiths targets humanities faculties in round of redundancies

November 2020

  • Octopus

    Book of the day
    There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness by Carlo Rovelli – review

    The Italian physicist fuses his deep knowledge of science and the arts

September 2020

  • Software developer working on computer at his office table<br>MHRBRB Software developer working on computer at his office table

    Future of education
    'Humanities graduates are just as employable': do the sciences really lead to more jobs?

    The UK government wants more students to study science subjects – but employers want humanities graduates too

June 2020

  • A student working in the library at Corpus Christi College at Oxford University

    Now, more than ever, we need arts graduates

  • Mortarboards being thrown in air at Birmingham University

    University and Arts Council in drive to re-brand 'soft' academic subjects

March 2020

  • The light shines above the door of 10 Downing Street

    Brutal reality of Conservative rule

    Letters: Alan Healey on age-old problems between the civil service and government, and Alan Coombe on how the humanities can help us cope with an inhuman Tory administration

February 2020

  • The first Open University graduation ceremony, at Alexandra Palace in London, 1973

    How the humanities became the new enemy within

    William Davies
    The current British government’s disdain puts an entire infrastructure of culture under threat, says sociologist William Davies
  • Woman sitting on library floor reading

    Humanities are not the right courses to cut

    Letters: Roger Brown says the rot started with a 1985 green paper which declared that the fundamental purpose of higher education was to serve the economy, Glyn Turton points out that humanities teach people to see through lies and hypocrisy, and Sharman Finlay says degree choice is not necessarily linked to career options
  • A building at the University of Sunderland's St Peter's campus, with the Tyne Bridge in the background

    Ending student quotas has been disastrous for higher education

    Catherine Fletcher
    While more prestigious universities heap pressure on to their lecturers, the rest are being left behind, says history professor Catherine Fletcher

December 2019

  • FILES-UN-CLIMATE-ENVIRONMENT<br>(FILES) In this file photograph taken on September 23, 2019, youth climate activist Greta Thunberg speaks during the UN Climate Action Summit on September 23, 2019 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. - Sitting on cold stone in front of the Stockholm Parliament: an anonymous teenager until a year ago, Greta Thunberg became the environmental conscience of the world and the voice of a generation exasperated by the inaction of its leaders. It all began in August 2018 when the 16-year-old Swede began the “school climate strike”. Armed with a cardboard sign, she quickly attracted the attention of the Swedish and then international media, and in a few months the girl with Asperger’s syndrome became the pasionaria of the blue planet. (Photo by Johannes EISELE / AFP) (Photo by JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images)

    People listen to Greta Thunberg because of her creativity, not just her science

    Lisette Johnston
    Creative subjects are on the decline in schools and universities, yet they are vitally important to society

June 2019

  • Stephen Schwarzman

    Oxford to receive biggest single donation 'since the Renaissance'

    US billionaire Stephen Schwarzman is donating £150m to fund humanities research

May 2019

  • Exam hall

    Analysing the purpose and value of universities

    Letters: Readers debate course structure, tuition fees, mental health, the importance of arts and humanities, and the need to work for a common good

March 2019

  • ‘Geography, a subject that is a humanity, a social science and has part StemTEM designation in higher education, is well placed to make such a contribution.’

    Securing a future for humanities: the clue is in the name

    Letters: Prof Joe Smith, director of the Royal Geographical Society, Prof Sir David Cannadine, president of the British Academy, and Prof Norman Gowar respond to a Guardian editorial
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