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

https://archive.is/myOFu

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.

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.de
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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?

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      Super expensive Apple, Adobe and Canon equipment? Because they don’t know better and symbols of social status are important?