L’excellent site Perseus a ouvert un blog où sont régulièrement publiés quelques articles annonçant les mises à jour du site, les évolutions possibles, mais aussi quelques actualités. Ainsi, on peut y lire un article de Gregory Crane qui décrit la désaffection des étudiants américains pour le latin et le grec :
Résumé :
According to statistics published by the Modern Language Association in February 2015, between fall 2009 and fall 2013, enrollments in Ancient Greek and Latin at US postsecondary institutions suffered their worst decline since 1968, the earliest year for which the MLA offers such statistics. The number of enrollments in Greek and Latin declined from 52,484 to 40,109, a drop of 24%. This precipitous and rapid decline may reflect the lingering aftershocks of the financial crisis of 2008, which certainly raised student anxiety levels and may have driven students away from intellectually idealistic activities…
La suite du résumé : sites.tufts.edu
Article complet : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HfAQZUyRfDV0BPS39wx9kwPEqqTOwUtlC23GfCfvF1Y/edit#