Dr. Holly Walters"Rishi Sunak will announce on Monday that he will CAP the number of students wanting to study "low-value" degrees."
Want to know what I think?
"Courses will be capped that do not have a high proportion of graduates getting a professional job, going into postgraduate study or starting a business"
From now on, philosophy, language, religion, politics, and culture will be exclusively the purview of the very rich.
For everyone else, college is where you will acquire specific skills that you will trade for wages on the capitalist market. Nothing else.
Let's be clear. Those "low value" degrees are all the degrees were you learn how power works. How knowledge is made. Where hierarchies and ideologies come from. And why all of that is considered "low value" and by whom.
Bevan Thomas@Manigarm It's telling that various totalitarian regimes have put more funding into educating their population in the sciences but have taken away funding for education in the liberal arts.
@bevanthomas It is, and in a few ways. Capitalism demands profit (in the form of patents or sellable results) or workers; which it prefers to be had cheaply. Hence, education is reimagined by totalitarian Capitalist States as something that should either produce Capital or produce Labor. The liberal arts reveal and challenge both.