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Yesterday, the management of my university announced that it ‘would not revisit’ its proposals to cease offering degrees in Ancient History and in Religion and Theology. While this was by no means a surprise, it was still a shock. Yes, some ancient history and religion will be taught as part of...
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I recently read T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922) for the first time (I should have read this many years ago, but life is short, the art is long). It was like getting punched in the gut – in a good way. I am not going to pretend to say anything of interest about a poem that falls well beyond my...
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The last few months have been particularly difficult in UK Higher Education, with constant news of restructuring, loss of jobs, and the end of long-standing degrees. My own institution has not been spared: it announced the loss of 400 academic jobs, as well as the end of degrees in nursing, music,...