Wednesday, April 24, 2024
UK’s creative industries bring in more revenue than cars, oil and gas – so why is arts education facing cuts?
theconversation.com: Recent guidance issued by the education secretary, Gillian Keegan, to the Office for Students reveals conflicting priorities in government and pours fuel on fires burning in an already troubled higher education sector.
The focus on science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) – “strategically important high-cost subjects” – is met by a freeze on funding for arts subjects such as music, fashion and drama at undergraduate level.
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It is absolutely infuriating to me that someone will purposely divest resources away from arts, away from *empathy*, and towards things like oil and gas. It seems to me the ecosystem of universities does not overlap well with the ecosystem of the actual economy, or at least, universities choose to make decisions that will monetarily benefit them, and not really the whole of society. People who act in shortsighted, selfish ways often have other motivations than being a bad person. They frequently make these decisions out of money, power, or some other form of social capital that might not be clear to an outside observer. Those who divest money away from the arts will always have some other motive benefiting them on their side. For example, a school may divert money away from art towards something like engineering, hoping that the engineer will give more money back to the school than the artist will.
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