The End Of Women’s Studies, And Other Useless Qualifications
STOP burning your bra and plaiting your leg hair. Women’s studies, aka Wimmin’s studies, is disappearing from British universities. As the Telegraph reports:
Over the last five years, numbers have dropped by 75 per cent and only 35 students are doing it this year. This summer, the last place offering the course, London Metropolitan University, is stopping women’s studies altogether…
Students have begun to realise, too, that women’s studies is useless for getting you a job. It’s no coincidence that the subject’s collapse coincided with the introduction of tuition fees. The moment you start paying for something is the moment you consider whether it’s really worthwhile.
Do you really need a degree? Do you really need a degree in geography?
Posted: 8th, February 2008 | In: Broadsheets Comments (7) | TrackBack | Permalink
