These cuts are devastating for our current staff & students but they also incredibly regressive — pushing education in languages and linguistics further out of reach for most students in the UK. We are the only uni in the southeast of England offering our range of languages (except Cambridge).

March 12, 2026 - 17:34 UTC

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Language & Linguistics is one of the founding units of the University of Essex and was part of the much-invoked ‘spirit of Essex’ in our marketing. Removing our autonomy and cutting our programmes is, among so many things, just really, really sad and a loss for applied linguistics.
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this is of course part of a much larger attack on modern languages, which, frankly, undercuts the supposed ‘market’ arguments around falling student demand. we know that languages improve graduate outcomes and employability and we know they enrich students’ lives.
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