Art Courses Are Becoming Useless

[Oghenemene Agodi]

Art Courses Are Becoming Useless: Chinese universities have scrapped about 12,000 arts and humanities degree programmes and replaced them with tech-focused courses as the country races toward an AI-driven economy.

The policy affects millions of students.

Between 2021 and 2025, more than 10,000 new undergraduate programmes were introduced, many focused on artificial intelligence, robotics, and other emerging technologies.

Arts and humanities degrees are seen as oversaturated with weak employment prospects.

China isn't alone. India has integrated AI into its school curriculum, the UAE has launched a National AI Education Initiative, Kazakhstan describes AI adoption as a matter of national survival, and Spain is expanding AI literacy across its education system.

Meanwhile, many countries in Africa are still teaching students courses that stopped being relevant 10 years ago.

 

[Mmachi Tobechukwu]

I don't completely agree with you on this. Humanity courses are as important as sciences. Do you know that some developed countries are banning their secondary school students from using the internet while some are placing heavy restrictions on the use of the internet but some years ago, everyone was going crazy about the internet and social media.