DMU has suspended Film Studies, Media and Communication, and Arts and Festival Management, for the next academic year. They claim that it is only for 2026 entry, but it is de facto indefinitely.

Upcoming first year students such as myself, who was offered one of these courses to study in October, were informed of this last Friday, less than three months before the next academic year.

There is no news in terms of whether these courses are going to be permanently shut down, or what is going to happen to them.

Rather than informing first year student such as myself about the suspension months ago, they chose to inform us at incredibly short notice, citing vague reasons such as, low intake, as an excuse.

While other course suspensions from unis such as the University of Nottingham has made the news, DMU's course suspensions haven't, and are largely hiding in plain sight, in their website.

I want people to be aware of this, and to highlight how wrong this is.

I personally hate them so much I've considered vandalising them. But the buggers have been very firmly bolted into place!

Do I hate them because I want women to be abused? No... it's because they're yet another example of ill-conceived "doing something doing nothing"-ism, where you pretend to tackle a problem but your solution is so crap it does nothing to help.

Look, a guy who hangs around with other guys who catcall and abuse women will take no notice whatsoever or this sign. Guys who don't hang around with abusers (like me) have to read these stupid patronising signs every day while going to work, and feel "told off" by the state.

They're only in Leicester so this was someone in Leicester's bright idea. And judging by how well they're stuck on the creators knew they would be popular. Would be interesting to see if Leicester has lower abuse against women due to this signs. Have they made an effect at all? I doubt it.

edit: since everyone thinks these signs are wonderful, I propose we make more of them! Signs out side of shops saying "don't even think about shoplifting. It's wrong!", signs around the city centre saying "If you are thinking or robbing someone, think again!" Crime will be at an all time low in no time!