The idea a generalist degree just leads to over-qualified graduates serving coffee Reality Bites-style is not only wrong, it is a misguided understanding of what we need from graduates.
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To address declining humanities enrolments, these programs should ensure they offer more than critical theory for identifying and analyzing problems.
The idea that human activity threatens nature, and that it is important to protect wild places, dates back to the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.
Internships and work-integrated learning for social sciences and humanities students can be part of how post-secondary institutions increase their capacities to contribute to social innovation.
LinkedIn called creativity ‘the most important skill in the world’ – it should be central to Labor’s jobs summit.
The humanities are labouring under a culture of managerialism – could the answer lie in reconnecting old traditions to post-1960s progressivism?
As we observe with the war in Ukraine, humanities skills are crucial for understanding 21st-century problems.
Big data analysis has unveiled startling links between seemingly unrelated things, such as how a person’s physical elevation above sea level might influence their personality.
Teaching entrepreneurial skills is a staple in business schools. But it can benefit all students – including majors in engineering, agriculture and even the arts.
History isn’t just learning facts. Students learn about the past by researching information and synthesising it to form an evidence-based argument. This skill is useful for a range of careers.
Instead of focusing solely on what managers do, management and business education needs to provide students with people skills. Here’s how the arts can help.
Government plans to defund arts higher education are detrimental to both the UK’s economy and its future.
A history professor describes how student-designed video games have transformed his classroom and provided a substitute for academic essays.
The lead role of public health researchers continues to be important. But there is growing acknowledgement that social scientists have to be present from the very beginning.
A veterinary scientist by training, Massey University Vice-Chancellor Jan Thomas has turned to the humanities to learn more about Māori. Here she explains why.
Graduate programs can be rich in scholarship and still prepare students for real-world careers.
Is it time for some scientists to turn back to pre-COVID-19 research?
Three key policy errors in the legislation mean the Morrison government is unlikely to achieve the stated goals of its package.
Today’s urgent inequality and environmental crises mean that more, not fewer, students should be studying history.
Demand is high for teachers with expertise in STEM subjects like maths. But students also deserve expert English, history, civics or geography teachers. Maybe your favourite teacher did an arts degree.
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria, and Visiting Professor of International Relations, Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil, University of Pretoria
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Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Georgetown University
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Executive Director, Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences; Honorary Senior Fellow, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Department of Physics, University of York
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Professor, Director of the Art & AI Lab, Rutgers University
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Professor of Philosophy of Science, Durham University
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Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of History, School Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences, University of Newcastle
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Eric and Jane Nord Family Professor, Case Western Reserve University
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Professor of Philosophy, Public Policy and Governance, University of Washington
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Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
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Associate Professor of History and Science in Society, Wesleyan University
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Assistant Professor of Religion, California Lutheran University
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Professor of AI, Research Group Leader, UNSW Sydney
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Professor in the Practice of Higher Education Policy, Australian National University
