Simon Haines Defends Humanities at AFR Higher Education Summit 2025
Critique of Humanities’ Marginalization At the Australian Financial Review Higher Education Summit in August 2025, Simon Haines, former head of ANU’s School of Humanities and now an adjunct professor at ACU, delivered a strong defense of the humanities[1]. Haines praised Australian universities for doing “brilliantly” in professional training and research, but warned that their “third […]
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