Do you agree with Sunak’s decision or do you think this is going to cause even more problems?
- Agree - Could work out
- Disagree - He has lost it
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A Cambridge English don commented on this very well:
One of the very many depressing things about our prime minister’s crusade against low-value degrees is that value to him automatically means “economic value”. That makes a kind of sense in a context where degrees are funded by a fee-based model that encourages students to think of themselves as consumers buying a product.
Yet there’s an irony in that it’s degrees that are often treated as low-value (such as the one I teach, English) that encourage students to reflect on the ways that different systems of value – moral, aesthetic, political, economic – overlap, pull apart and conflict with one another. It’s a shame that conversations about degrees tend to prioritise one kind of worth over all others.
Dr Chris Townsend
Christ’s College, Cambridge
(Guardian letters, 19 July 2023)
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Interesting read!