Cuts to the arts and humanities in England’s universities are becoming “endemic”, according to the country’s main higher education union, as it ramped up opposition to plans to cut courses at two institutions.
The University and College Union said it had written to the vice-chancellor of the University of Wolverhampton after it emerged that it had suspended student recruitment to about 140 undergraduate and taught postgraduate courses.
Meanwhile, the union’s general secretary accused the University of Roehampton of mounting an “assault on education” after more than 200 academics were told their jobs could be at risk due to a “strategic realignment” that will result in cuts to humanities programmes.
