It looks like ACTA’s report on the decline of Shakespeare in the humanities curriculum could be extended to the Mother Country. Here’s a story with the headline Shakespeare in peril as “Oxford rethinks English syllabus” in The Independent. The opening sentences:

The role of Shakespeare in the teaching of English at Oxford University may be downgraded as part of a proposal that has provoked outrage among scholars and thespians. A document seen by The Independent reveals that, for the first time, in-depth examination of the works of the Bard would no longer be compulsory for English literature undergraduates.