1 Mar 2023

When humans are no longer learning about humanities

From Afternoons, 1:45 pm on 1 March 2023

Cuts to arts subjects at Otago University were made back in 2016, with the university citing a drop in enrollments.

It's a now global trend.

Four-fifths of countries in the OECD have reported falling humanities enrollments in the past decade.

Professor Paul Spoonley, Research Director for the College of Humanities and Social Science at Massey University talks to Jesse about what we lose when humans aren't learning about the humanities.

Professor Paul Spoonley says it's impossible to measure the full scale of hate speech.

Professor Paul Spoonley says it's impossible to measure the full scale of hate speech. Photo: RNZ / Katie Scotcher