“I’m convinced that the vast majority of my current students today will do jobs that don’t even exist yet,” says Prof Vittorio Bufacchi of University College Cork’s School of Society, Politics and Ethics.
His comments come after the University of Galway asked its academics to reimagine how arts courses are offered amid a drop off in enrolment as students seek “direct routes to employment”.
Under the proposal, the college’s bachelor of arts degree (GY101), which has 23 subject options, would be potentially replaced with “contemporary programmes designed to meet the learning needs of students”.
Dr Kiran Sarma, vice dean for Education at the College of Arts, Social…