They fear that the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, which has responsibility for university policy, has favoured science, technology, engineering and maths at the expense of humanities, in an attempt to boost Britain's economy in the short term.
It also continues a trend seen last week in the A-level results, where students were said to be trying to recession-proof themselves by shunning so-called soft subjects in favour of science, economics and maths.
Under communist rule, religion was officially viewed as a personal matter, and relatively few restrictions were placed upon it (compared with those imposed by other communist regimes), although the government made efforts to undermine religious teachings and faith in favour of science and empiricism.
The people I spoke to seemed very much in favour of science and the NHS, but had to square that with the seemingly inexplicable rejection of their medicine by the world around them.
Since the late 1980s, the government has promoted the teaching of Asian languages, especially Indonesian, Japanese, and Chinese; it has also favoured applied science and technology and computer literacy.
As such, the process of setting research priorities is of pivotal importance for favouring the science, technology, and innovation (STI -driven development of low- and middle-income countrieSTI -driven
Cabanis' early interest in poetry and medicine and a budding political career were eventually abandoned in favour of philosophical science.
(They also favour experts in science, technology and management; the Communist Party is less interested in attracting scholars in more politically controversial fields).Chinese universities have great difficulty fostering talent at home.
Convinced of the need for social revolution, the Paris anarchists argued in favour of Western science against religion and superstition, called for the emancipation of women and youth, rejected the traditional family and the Confucian values on which it was based, and organized experimental work-study communities as alternatives to traditional forms of family and working life.
In a 2005 interview he commented that in doing so he had rejected "mumbo-jumbo in favour of rational science".
