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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Aneesa Ahmed

UK university courses on race and colonialism facing axe due to cuts

Author Bernardine Evaristo has criticised the ‘amputation’ of the Black British literature master's course at Goldsmiths University.
Author Bernardine Evaristo has criticised the ‘amputation’ of the Black British literature master’s course at Goldsmiths University. Photograph: Karen Robinson/The Observer

Cuts to arts and humanities subjects within higher education will have damaging implications for our understanding of race and colonialism, academics have warned.

Petitions have been launched to save anthropology at Kent University, where the subject has come under threat of closure, while Oxford Brookes confirmed the closure of its music programme earlier this year.

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