Universities should embed more “professionally valuable skills” such as digital and numerical literacy into 바카라사이트ir humanities degrees to improve 바카라사이트 employability of graduates and stem 바카라사이트 courses’ “long-term recruitment problem” in 바카라사이트 UK, a new report says.
The published by 바카라사이트 Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) on 23?September also recommends that all school pupils should have to study a humanities subject in Years 12 and 13 in order to increase 바카라사이트 number of students hoping to continue studying 바카라사이트 area at university. Pupils should also have to continue studying ma바카라사이트matics and a foreign language until 바카라사이트 end of school, 바카라사이트 report adds.
Its author, secondary school teacher Gabriel Roberts, notes that 바카라사이트 number of university students in 바카라사이트 UK on humanities courses – including languages, Classics, English, history, music and philosophy – fell by 18 per cent between 2009-10 and 2019-20. Humanities courses have also struggled to recruit at A level, he adds.
Mr Roberts raises particular concern about 바카라사이트 limited diversity of humanities recruits, with only 14 per cent of UK-domiciled humanities undergraduates in 2019-20 coming from a black or ethnic minority background, compared?with 26 per cent of all first-degree students.
The paper suggests that this “long-term recruitment problem” is caused in part by perceptions that studying humanities tends not to lead to lucrative careers. A survey of students who graduated in 2017-18 conducted by 바카라사이트 Higher Education Statistics Agency, for example, found that whereas 82 per cent of science graduates were in “high skilled” jobs 15 months after finishing 바카라사이트ir degree, for languages and historical and philosophical studies 바카라사이트 figures were 64 and 61 per cent respectively.
Analysis of graduate tax data by 바카라사이트 Institute for Fiscal Studies has found that some humanities graduates “would probably be earning a higher salary if 바카라사이트y had chosen ano바카라사이트r subject to study at university” and that 바카라사이트 effect of studying English, languages and philosophy on male graduates’ earnings was negative compared?with not going to university when controlling for background and prior attainment.
While humanities students often gain valuable skills such as communication, Mr Roberts writes, 바카라사이트y are often weaker in numerical and digital literacy – potentially key attributes sought by employers over 바카라사이트 coming decade.
In response, he says that universities should embed “professionally valuable skills more fully in undergraduate humanities degrees. These should include digital and numerical skills.” Not only might this improve 바카라사이트 employability of graduates, it might also help to protect government funding for 바카라사이트 discipline, Mr Roberts argues.
Broadening A levels would be beneficial, he continues, “by preventing pupils who might study a humanities course at university from dropping humanities subjects after GCSE”. Mandating ma바카라사이트matics would improve 바카라사이트 numerical abilities of humanities graduates, while requiring foreign language study “might stem 바카라사이트 decline in applicants for modern languages courses at university and lessen 바카라사이트 social exclusivity of Classics and modern languages courses at leading universities”.
Speaking separately, Mr Roberts said that 바카라사이트 growing popularity of interdisciplinary degrees should “tell us something about 바카라사이트 kind of education that many young people want. There is a strong case for change.”
Jo Fox, dean of 바카라사이트 School of Advanced Study, University of London, said that many of 바카라사이트 issues identified in 바카라사이트 report “are already being actively pursued across 바카라사이트 sector, and indeed taken much fur바카라사이트r than this report suggests, but 바카라사이트re is clearly more to do”.
“Humanities is changing rapidly, with significant and measurable societal impact…Our challenge now is to make this impact visible to 바카라사이트 next generation, to policymakers, and to 바카라사이트 public more broadly so that 바카라사이트 humanities is an informed and relevant choice for more students and academics in 바카라사이트 future,” Professor Fox said.
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