UK varsity scraps Islamic Studiescourse

LONDON: A UK university has scrapped
its two-year course in Islamic Studies
due to lack of students enrolling for the
lectures, prompting a petition for the
subject to continue. The Manchester Metropolitan University
ran a two-year course on the religion
and Middle-Eastern societies for the past
two decades, but education managers
now say that student numbers on the
course are unsustainable. More than 400 lecturers and students
have now signed a petition arguing for
the course to keep going, reports from
Manchester said. An MMU spokesman said there had been
single-figure demand for the course for
many years. "It is very disappointing that this course
has not been more popular. We do offer
Islamic studies elements as a part of
other politics courses but the demand
for a single subject qualification is
extremely low," he said.

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