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Academics Respond to the Government's Gutting of Arts Courses

Academics Respond to the Government's Gutting of Arts Courses

UK universities are feeling the effects of last year's 50% cut to funding for study the government says is "not of strategic importance".

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Significant cuts and closures are being felt at universities around the country as a result of continuing cuts to higher education budgets for arts, humanities, and social science courses.

The University and Colleges Union (UCU) called the case at Roehampton University a “cull”: management is enacting a “fire and rehire” process, sacking 226 academics—half of their academic staff—and asking them to re-apply for a decreased number of positions in the schools of arts, humanities and social sciences, education, psychology, and life and health sciences:

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