The government’s drive for ‘vocational’ education is accelerating the death of the humanities, at a time when the study of literature is more vital than ever.

If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.

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For the time being at least, we have notionally centre-left governments across England, Scotland and Wales.

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Save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire

Research-intensive university told it risks “intellectual stagnation” as 2,700 staff put at risk of redundancy

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University says programmes no longer financially viable due to drops in recruitment

A January survey found 48% of students have gone without food for financial reasons and 23% do so several times a month

Relentless off-the-peg commercial rewiring has undermined British higher education

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