ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to assess the situation for the humanities in the United Kingdom (UK). It explores the question of what would constitute a crisis in the humanities in higher education and identifies several markers of crisis. Study of the humanities may make an efficiency-enhancing contribution to the economy by, for example, facilitating more effective and rapid communication of the complex ideas within and across firms and other organizations or by enhancing capacities for problem solving. The chapter presents and explains the evidence concerning university enrollments. It discusses funding for the humanities in the UK. The chapter provides three categories as humanities: Comparative Literary Studies, English Studies, and Historical and Philosophical Studies. It looks at Higher Education Statistics Agency's expenditure figures disaggregated by broad cost center, for the whole sector, for ten academic years starting in 2002–03.
