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THE GOVERNMENT PLANS TO CUT FUNDING TO ARTS COURSES BY 50%!!!
This may result in many art courses closing down as they will not be able to offer quality teaching on such a dramatically reduced budget.
This may result in many art courses closing down as they will not be able to offer quality teaching on such a dramatically reduced budget.
A policy like this will also likely disproportionately affect working class artists who already face significant barriers to entry than more affluent students who may have better networking opportunities outside of HE.
It also will massively affect BAME students especially with the loss of London Weighted funding! There’s so many ramifications - I’m dropping some links below here in this thread
https://culturallearningalliance.org.uk/office-for-students-consults-on-49-cuts-to-he-arts-courses-funding/">https://culturallearningalliance.org.uk/office-fo...
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/education/2021/may/06/plans-for-50-funding-cut-to-arts-subjects-at-universities-catastrophic">https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp...
https://homemcr.org/article/home-statement-higher-education-funding-cuts/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=campaign">https://homemcr.org/article/h...
What can you do? There’s an online petition here you can sign:
I will update this with any protests/petitions/campaigns etc as they emerge. https://www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/stop-the-50-percent-funding-cut-to-arts-subjects-in-higher-education/">https://www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions...
I will update this with any protests/petitions/campaigns etc as they emerge. https://www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/stop-the-50-percent-funding-cut-to-arts-subjects-in-higher-education/">https://www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions...
