I was straight up told by an HE big shot some years ago ‘art isn’t for poor people. They need something that will get them jobs.’

UK’s far right govt is terrified of humanities, art, social sciences because we teach students critical thinking. https://twitter.com/lottelydia/status/1284759876955242498
It is telling how UK has been slashing and burning it’s ‘world class’ higher education sector once more people from the margins began to access and benefit from it.
Beyond the irrationality, lack of logic, stupidity even of the pricing proposal, the motive and impulse is the same: limit higher education to posh sorts again.
Oh and this narrative about jobs is toxic as it emphasises the transformation of higher education into training.

And guess what this does? Yep, it attempts to limit teaching critical thinking!
See this? Connect the dots https://twitter.com/profsunnysingh/status/1284042326747340800?s=21 https://twitter.com/profsunnysingh/status/1284042326747340800
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