Humanities graduates played a large and increasing role in employment sectors which brought about growth in the UK economy in the 1970s and 1980s, research at Oxford University has found.
A report commissioned by the university’s Humanities Division found that numbers of Oxford graduates of English, history, philosophy, classics and modern languages in the key growth sectors of finance, media, law and management rose substantially between 1960 and 1989.
Prof Shearer West, head of humanities at Oxford University, hopes the research will show school pupils, parents and teachers that studying humanities is no bar to finding a job.
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