Utrecht University Utrecht University in the Netherlands has withdrawn itself from the World University ranking World University Rankings provided by Times Higher Education. As this has generated quite some reactions - praise, questions, some doubts, I want to provide some context. Hence a thread 🧵1/16

Behind the management-speak and obfuscation, the core point here is that the AHRC are going to reduce their annual number of funded PHD places in the Arts & Humanities in the UK by a quarter, dropping from around 425 to around 300. A huge blow to the future of UK Humanities. 👇

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