“Universities serve many different purposes depending on who one asks. Some of these are obvious; they analyse societal problems and offer solutions to them, they train people to be better, more critical citizens. Some are more disputable such as whether they should explicitly prepare people for careers …” (more)
[Garrett Kennedy, University Observer, 26 November]
I could name a slew of other degrees that serve no actual purpose that are taught in Irish universities. Let’s leave deciding what can and cannot be offered to students to study to people like Viktor Orban, eh?