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University of Galway is proposing to discontinue its general arts course

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The University of Galway is proposing to discontinue and replace its general arts course as students are increasingly attracted to “direct routes to employment”.Aisling Murray Fleming, Guidance course director of Dublin City University spoke to us to explain more.

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