Humanities among degrees being ‘extinguished’ by hard-up universities

Exclusive: Experts fear rise in education cold spots' and social immobility as 4,000 academic posts lost in one year

Thousands of university job cuts in humanities and social sciences are creating widespread cold spots for languages, classics and theology degrees, the British Academy has warned.

Universities' finances are so precarious that redundancies are also occurring in business studies, law and English - subjects considered strategically important and traditionally popular courses.