28th June 2011, 09:07 AM
Kel Wrote:The most likely outcome of that scenario, is that archaeology courses will be axed in favour of expanding existing subjects which are "easy" to fill with top-whack fee paying students. Uni bean-counters are looking for ways to shed academic staff, not keep them.
Unfortunately, I fear you may be right about this, and that the end result will be a lot of institutions churning out graduates with degrees in a limited range of subjects (law, accountancy, medicine, business, computing etc) that enable students to get well-paid jobs.
You know Marcus. He once got lost in his own museum