More than doubling the cost of humanities degrees is sad. They teach critical thinking, research skills, and broaden our worldview. It is easy to rip into them for not being ‘job specific’, but that ignores they are the scaffold to everything we know about our society.

I’m going to add the letter I wrote to my modern history class two years ago here bc it summarises why I love reading and studying History. The same can be said for SOR and Business Studies. https://link.medium.com/lb9zaMCCq7 

I did a major in Renaissance History and wrote a whole essay on this statue. Sure it’s not super useful in my daily life, but it has shaped my understanding of the statues debate, philanthropy, patronage, public-private partnerships and the power of doubt. I would say - relevant

Im also going to add this poem because I love it and it reminds us that what we learn at school and university is not always what we are being taught. https://onbeing.org/poetry/what-you-missed-that-day-you-were-absent-from-fourth-grade/

Also while it’s great to hear teaching degrees will be more affordable, a lot of people go into teaching as a second career after studying an undergraduate humanities degree, and if you’re paying your undergrad off for longer, you’ll be less likely to retrain.

To finish: today a student who has wanted to study history and law since Year 9 said “if the govt had said this when I was choosing subjects I would have done more sciences, now what am I meant to do?” So, as a policy it will work, and we will be poorer for it.