Arts degrees have great employment outcomes and provide an essential pathway for underrepresented students President Heather Zwicker has argued in The Australian newspaper today.

The value of the humanities, arts and social sciences continue to be scrutinised with arguments about the role of AI and the need for skilled workers often foregrounded.

But Heather contends despite falls in enrolments over the past decade these disciplines remain popular with around 150,000 students enrolled in 2023.

She also says the humanities are the portal to higher education for students from low socio-economic and other disadvantaged backgrounds, the under-represented resource Education Minister Jason Clare is seeking to capture.

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