This week’s infographic is a follow-up to last week’s, which showed the numbers of students studying the arts, humanities, and social sciences in the UK. This week’s installment, from the AHRC report “Leading the World: The economic impact of UK arts and humanities research,” shows the total income from the 80,000 non-UK students who earn […]
Voices For the Humanities
S.O.S.: Higher Education in Greece
By Eva Kekou, 4Humanities International Correspondent As part of the latest austerity package dictated by the European Union/International Monetary Fund/European Central Bank, the Greek government has announced new extreme wage cuts. For faculty members these reductions will reach 35%, and these are on top of the reductions that have already been implemented in the past […]
All Our Ideas: The Value of the Humanities
4Humanities is running an All Our Ideas campaign to see what you think are the best arguments for the humanities. The question we’ve posted is What is the value of the humanities?. Follow the link and vote on different answers (or propose your own.)
Resources for Advocacy: A Review of the Arts & Humanities Research Council Reports
The UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), founded in 2005, has published a number of reports that are an important resource for arts and humanities advocacy. These reports highlight the value of arts and humanities research in the UK and abroad in a number of different ways. One report, “Arts and Humanities Research Landscape,” […]
Distance Learning in India
By Oeendrila Lahiri, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 4Humanities International Correspondent To a lot of people in many countries open learning was a great idea. It would provide opportunities to get the education or the degree they wanted to those who could not manage the time, energy or the money. When I was growing up […]
Interdisciplinarity: Social/Behavioral Disciplines and the Humanities
By Thomas Scheff Abstract: Most disciplines and sub-disciplines consider their particular specialization to be valuable in itself and superior to other disciplines. But compared with the huge leaps in the physical sciences, social/behavioral disciplines and humanities have made little progress. Since many of the physical science advances were the result of the merging of disciplines, […]
Greece’s Economic Crisis, the Art Scene and the Market These Days
The economic crisis that has haunted Greece has often been echoed in the media, but the increasing social unrest seems to have been a boon to creativity. In the field of visual arts, many art professionals say Greek art has woken up from a deep sleep. By Eva Kekou, 4Humanities International Correspondent