UK university courses on race and colonialism facing axe due to cuts
05-05-2024 11:00 via theguardian.com

UK university courses on race and colonialism facing axe due to cuts

Academics warn loss of higher education arts and humanities courses will harm understanding of racism and imperial historyCuts to arts and humanities subjects within higher education will have damaging implications for our understanding of race and colonialism, academics have warned.Petitions have been launched to save anthropology at Kent University, where the subject has come under threat of closure, while Oxford Brookes confirmed the closure of its music programme earlier this year. Continue
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