JAPAN - High demand for STEM degrees raises concern for humanities [University World News, 2022]

Title:

High demand for STEM degrees raises concern for humanities 

 

Author:

Suvendrini Kakuchi  

 

Published:

University World News, 21 April 2022

https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20220421144951527

 

From the article:

In June last year Midori Koya, aged 24, changed from graduate studies in history at a prestigious private university in Japan to digital marketing, saying it would help her gain a better-paying job. “A doctorate in history, my ultimate goal, is basically limiting my job prospects,” she said.

 

Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), UK - Surfacing the employability value of the Humanities & HEPI Report: The Humanities in Modern Britain: Challenges and Opportunities

Title:

Surfacing the employability value of the Humanities

 

Author:

Kate Daubney PFHEA FRSA, Director of The Careers Group, University of London

 

Published:

Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), UK, 29 September 2021

https://www.hepi.ac.uk/2021/09/29/surfacing-the-employability-value-of-the-humanities/

 

From the blog:

This blog is in response to the recent HEPI report on the Humanities and is the third to respond in a series of blogs following Nick Hillman, HEPI Director and Peter Mandler, Professor of Modern Cultural History at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

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Title of report:

The Humanities in Modern Britain: Challenges and Opportunities

Author:

Gabriel Roberts

Published:

Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), UK, 23 September 2021

https://www.hepi.ac.uk/2021/09/23/the-humanities-in-modern-britain-challenges-and-opportunities/

 

From this report:

In this report, Gabriel Roberts looks at the current challenges facing the humanities. The author analyses the humanities’ performance in three different areas – student enrolment, graduate employment and funding – and explores how any challenges might be overcome.

South African Journal of Science (2020) - More eyes on the problem: Perspectives from Political Science: Insights from the political management of COVID-19

Title:

More eyes on the problem: Perspectives from Political Science: Insights from the political management of COVID-19

 

Author:

Adam Habib

University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, South Africa

 

Published:

South African Journal of Science, Volume 116, Number 7/8 (2020)

https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2020/8499

 

From the article:

When COVID-19 arrived on our shores, our political authorities quickly assembled the medical fraternity’s best minds to advise them on how to respond. The President very quickly engaged in consultations with opposition parties and with social actors including business, labour and civic players like religious leaders. A private–public partnership in the form of a Solidarity Fund was announced, and a number of billionaire families including the Oppenheimers, Ruperts and Motsepes pledged a billion rand each. This was rapidly followed by government’s decision to impose one of the most rigid and extreme lockdowns announced anywhere in the world. We collectively beamed at this decisive, world-class response. We bathed in the praise of the World Health Organization, of the recognitions of our public–private partnerships, and in the realisation that the political responses of our President and government were based on evidence, data and world-class science.

 

Then COVID-19 exposed the crude underbelly of South Africa.

 

Scholarly Article (2020) - More eyes on COVID-19: Perspectives from Anthropology: What people believe is a lot less important than that they believe it

Title:
More eyes on COVID-19: Perspectives from Anthropology: What people believe is a lot less important than that they believe it

Author:
Jess Auerbach
Faculty of Education, Stellenbosch University

Published:
South African Journal of Science, Volume 116, Number 7/8 (2020)
https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2020/8491

From the article:
Anthropology compels us all to see the world from many different perspectives at once. On the rare occasions, such as a pandemic, where we all need to adopt very specific habits from the intimate to the public, these different perspectives must be taken seriously and must inform policy at every level.

Health is not only biophysical, but also emotional, spiritual, environmental and societal. Dignity, security, and purpose cannot be achieved alone, but through collective everyday experiences that are currently being radically altered.
        

Short Article by Emma Pettit (February 2020) - Are the Humanities Really in Crisis?

Title:
Are the Humanities Really in Crisis?

Author:
Emma Pettit

Published:
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 9 February 2020

From the article:
"Neal Lester thinks that’s a cliché. The real question is, How do we communicate the value of the humanities without getting bogged down by defining it?"

To read this article:
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Are-the-Humanities-Really-in/248014
[This article is avialable only to Chronicle subscribers.]

EVENT (Ghana) & CALL FOR PAPERS: Repatriation in Africa, the African Diaspora and other Global Contexts: Histories, Practices, Understandings and Constructions

Title of conference:
Repatriation in Africa, the African Diaspora and other Global Contexts: Histories, Practices, Understandings and Constructions

Date of conference:
30 July - 1 August 2020

Place:
The University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

Subject fields:
African American History/Studies, African History/Studies, Humanities, Slavery, World History/Studies

Deadline for submissions of abstracts:
15 April 2020

Notification of acceptance:
30 April 2020

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