L’Università di Galway prevede di chiudere e sostituire il corso d’arte in un contesto di calo di interesse
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/education/2026/02/27/university-of-galway-plans-to-ditch-and-replace-arts-course-amid-fall-off-in-interest/
di Bill_Badbody
7 commenti
It’s fair to say there was a running joke that an arts degree never had a job at the end of it. So it would be interesting to know what people with arts degrees generally went on to do.
I feel like this is more of a correction of over interest in arts degrees.
The old joke in ucg you’d see all the time written on toilet paper back in the day was “arts degree, please take one”
This is a real shame because there is a value to an arts-type education but it can’t be directly translated to job in industry and it’s more of a “what you make of it” thing. It’s troubling that as a society we are orientating more and more to seeing education as a direct pipeline to the workplace.
I understand why students are shying away though. I did that exact thing myself as a confused 18 year old. I heard all the jokes about “lol no jobs” and did Comp Sci. At some point in the 2010s secondary schools and colleges started really hammering the “good grades means good salary” drum and I listened. Ended up hating college and not really finding myself until after my studies. I’m happy with my job now but ironically ended up with one where I’m writing lots of documentation and trying to convince various groups of people to do things, something an Arts degree would’ve equipped me for better than the pure Comp Sci degree.
These kind of arts courses are really just education for the sake of education. While that is great in theory it is a long time to spend working on a degree that only really enables you to apply for job that you probably could have been trained up to do.
Its part of a broader problem in Ireland of too many people going to college to do low value degrees (work wise) because its free and everyone encourages you to go. That combined with people looking down on the trades in general as if it is something lesser rather then a great choice to work with your hands.
I did philosophy and history. I work in a call centre looking after business clients. Wages are ok, but ya would have preferred to end up doing something completely different….
Arts in Galway was great for me being a 17 year old with no idea what to do, ended up realising I really liked law and pivoting to purely that, starting in arts in the end only cost me 2 years at a point where I should not have been in 3rd level education anyway – it was the only thing that made sense for me at the time though so maybe this does not apply generally