arts, Featured, Higher Education, humanities, Research funding, Research policy, SHAPE, social science, Value of the humanities
“Minimum expectations” are no way to value the arts, humanities, and social sciences
The UK government recently announced its intention to reduce funding for ‘low value’ degrees in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Drawing on her research into the history of higher education policy, Zoe Hope Bulaitis argues that current government demands for courses to demonstrate value fail on their own limited terms and that like previous … Continued