Terrible news. I worked as a visiting lecturer at Hertfordshire in 2021 and am thinking of all the great staff and students I encountered there. Hope the decision is reversed, but it’s depressingly indicative of the direction of travel in British higher education.
Eamonn O’Keeffe
On Friday afternoon before the Bank Holiday, colleagues in the Humanities department were called to a meeting on Tuesday.
They were informed that the University Portfolio Review had decided that English Language, English Literature, Philosophy, History & Creative Writing UG degrees would close
University of Hertfordshire UCU
Aye. Heard today that my university is closing UG History, Philosophy, English Lit, Linguistics, and Creative Writing in one go.
