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Powerful piece by Angela McRobbie on the Verso blog about the threatened redundancies at Goldsmiths, University of London, and the wider attack on UK's higher education system in general, and the arts, humanities and social sciences in particular.
https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/a-goldsmiths-diary
'The decimation of the humanities and social sciences is an affront to educational common-sense, any idea of social cohesion, needs these subject areas to be at the heart of education and everyday life.'
#universities #highered #art #humanities #socialscience #cuts #Goldsmiths #highered
#neoliberalism
VersoA Goldsmiths DiaryThese are desperate times in the UK higher education system. Every week there are closures of degrees or departments, and sizeable redundancies. Disproportionately it is the arts, humanities and social sciences that are affected, a consequence of their downgrading in recent years. The frequency with which common-sense