The Guardian view on humanities cuts in universities: academic departments are more than cost centres | Editorial
Literature, the arts and social sciences must not be sacrificed as higher education funding is squeezed “I ask nothing more from you than to do what you have been doing. Go out into the fray and keep reading,” was Percival Everett’s advice when he addressed graduating students at Wesleyan university in Connecticut last summer. Fitting words from a prize-winning novelist, at a time when gambling has become a more common leisure activity in the US than reading a book. In…
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