1mo ago

Funding for ‘high-cost’ university courses to be cut in England

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Capital funding for universities in England to be cut

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/64448364

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Education secretary says top-up support for subjects including media must be scaled back because of ‘extremely challenging’ fiscal environment
Education secretary Bridget Phillipson told the sector regulator on Monday that capital spending would be almost halved in 2025-26 to £84mn from a multiyear settlement equivalent to an annual allocation of £150mn.

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1mo ago

Funding for ‘high-cost’ university courses to be cut in England

www.ft.com /content/ec744435-ae1e-43b4-9474-37aa27d74f00

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Why are journalism and media studies "high-cost"? Don't these people mainly need a desk and a computer? I would have guessed it's something like chemistry with lots of hands-on courses, labs, tutors for smaller groups and lab equipment? Or engineering, who run large buildings filled with expensive machinery for the students?
- Super expensive Apple, Adobe and Canon equipment? Because they don't know better and symbols of social status are important?
  
  I've never had a look at the bookkeeping but I'd question whether such products cost as much as industry equipment or cost for staff... What does Adobe want for a license? 100 or 300 bucks? So they can buy five hundred of them for like a salary of one person. That's not much in the whole picture. Also I think the mechanical engineers have CNC machines, presses and equipment that's hundreds of thousands or a million each... And they all need maintenance and supplies as well. Though, to be fair those equipment is probably going to last way longer than any Apple Mac Studio.
Well, sometimes bad things happen to racist societies.
It seems that they are so anti-immigrant, that "immigration reforms would make it more difficult to attract high fee-paying international students." Thus part of the reason for losing money to pay for programs.
Notice it's journalism that would be cut. The one thing that would help dispel the misinformation campaigns that led to Brexit.
Also, taxing the ultra rich would help fund school programs.