Big win for varsity lecturers as PhD requirement quashed
Commission for University Education (CUE) had ordered all assistant lecturers to get PhD degrees to qualify to teach by October 2019.
Why ‘worthless’ humanities degrees may set you up for life
At university, when I told people I was studying for a history degree, the response was almost always the same: “You want to be a teacher?”. No, a journalist. “Oh. But you’re not majoring in communications?” In the days when a university education was the purview of a privileged few, perhaps there wasn’t the assumption […]
Why ‘worthless’ humanities degrees may set you up for life
At university, when I told people I was studying for a history degree, the response was almost always the same: “You want to be a teacher?”. No, a journalist. “Oh. But you’re not majoring in communications?” In the days when a university education was the purview of a privileged few, perhaps there wasn’t the assumption […]