Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 08/10/2025How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want. 822020503
aerodeon.bsky.social @aerodeon.bsky.social · 08/10/2025These are all studies that foster empathy, so of course Badenoch wants rid. 000
Richard Hernaman Allen @rhernamanallen.bsky.social · 08/10/2025It's also incredibly stupid. We NEED creative people as much as we need people with science & tech. As the new tech revolution happens, these are the skills we shall require. 040
researchdoom @bananaintherama.bsky.social · 08/10/2025The government shouldn’t dictate what degrees universities offer. It’s that simple. People are and should continue to be free to study whatever they want including Classics, PPE, English, Philosophy or Physics.If Gov wants to encourage uptake in other areas (Nursing, Medicine,…) scrap the fees!! 031
Steve @stephenh.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Perhaps we should all have trained as software engineers and then we could have hacked the Conservative website, and then laughed about it. 000
Rene Dorfinger @renedorfinger.bsky.social · 08/10/2025They all want more programmers, coders, excel-Wizards, PowerPoint ninjas etc. And of course they want that because these specialists do it, instead of thinking and asking why would I do this? What are the consequences? Where does it lead to? That's not an attractive proposition for powers that be. 000
Steve 🇵🇸 @artificialsteve.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Also the maligning of Media Studies as a 'lazy' and 'soft' degree is in large part the reason why nobody has the skills to critique what they're being selectively drip-fed by the media anymore. 050
TrousersOfDoom 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇵🇸 @trousersofdoom.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Also, Universities are obliged to charge the same amount for degrees like English that they are for STEM subjects which cost a great deal more to run in terms of the equipment and technology they use. I’d be amazed if in most universities it’s not one of the more profitable subjects. 020
Andrea Robertson @mrsrobbo.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Well, if they can't even get the spelling of the country's name correct on their own literature, it seems they need English language graduates. Also, school English teachers have to come from somewhere... A few proof readers wouldn't go amiss, either. 050
Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Also, I work in a field where an arts or humanities degree is infinitely more useful than a STEM one. I’ve worked in organisations full of scientists and engineers for decades and they really, really need people like me to do a lot of important stuff that they’re really fucking bad at. 1151
Vagabending @vagabending.bsky.social · 08/10/2025It is extremely funny to me that people are obsessed with the idea of AI eating the world and yet the only interface to AI is a text prompt where you articulate what you need... and people think simultaneously that English and language in general are not super important... like Sure jan. 020
TaxtheRich @wishiwasamermaid.bsky.social · 08/10/2025There’s a reason those subjects are considered humanities. They help inform reasoning and critical thinking abilities. 010
sarfrin.bsky.social @sarfrin.bsky.social · 08/10/2025The performing arts are one of our biggest money makers so that makes no sense on any level except pure ignorance of anything cultured or intelligent. 010
donaldé @donalde.bsky.social · 08/10/2025when will they fucking learn about the concept of soft power and the amount that arts contribute to the economy 170
🍂 Buff 🍂 @guaranteedcrits.bsky.social · 08/10/2025also when jobs hiring was still a thing, most of them demand *a* degree. they want to see that you can stick to something for 4 years, they don't care what it was, you can train anyone to do anything in a couple months 010
Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️🌈🇪🇺 @muchechops.bsky.social · 08/10/2025she's prepping everyone for handing "english" over to AI...media.tenor.coma crowd of people with their hands on their headsALT: a crowd of people with their hands on their heads 000
Hannah Shaw-Williams @hsw3k.bsky.social · 08/10/2025If degrees do nothing else, they at least offer people a few years of breathing room. Instead of just school 9-3, immediately followed by 50 years of work 9-5. 000
Dorbs @dorbs61.bsky.social · 08/10/2025I am soooooo tired of this. I studied engineering- worked in STEM my whole working life, and what makes that life worth living? Art, literature, cinema, fashion, great food, music, photography, poetry. There is value and growth in learning. 070
Sir Andy KBE @andykbe.bsky.social · 08/10/2025They don't want anyone who can define the truth and show them to be liars. 000
Doctor “NAFO” If You’re Nasty @docnickie.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Specifically sociology is being cut for exposing them. However, it’s a valuable degree in an economic sense because there’s tons of human services jobs you can get with it 010
jnlangton.bsky.social @jnlangton.bsky.social · 08/10/2025the issue is any institution was offer a degree course 000
Philip R Holden @pwotg.bsky.social · 08/10/2025I speak from some experience. Most business degrees are ill-conceived and do not give 'value for money'. Business does not, generally, need business graduates. They need, interesting, hard working and creative people. However, all graduates could benefit from some business and economics training. 150
Felix Dos Santos @felixdossantos.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Exactly. If I choose to spend thousands of pounds on*something shit*, surely that's up to me. 000
Val Jester @highviolet.coys.social · 08/10/2025Because the type of people who end up in politics can't comprehend things like enjoying music or art or books because there's no measurable gain in it (from their POV) explains why any politician just melts into a puddle whenever they're asked about anything like music. 050
r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 08/10/2025they see them as a rip off because they aren't making people as compliant and obedient as the establishment needs them to be 1142
Rather Drawn @ratherdrawn.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Imagine not being able to study English... in England... the insanity of it. 160
Rich Pickins @axiomatixx.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Destroying society one fucking stupid idea at a time. Sure, lets debase the value of communication and education at its very core, just to begin with by essentially casting aspersions at the study of the very cultural essence of our language. Very elitist. Next, "why we should cancel kinder" 000
Aeryn 💀 The Living Dead Transsexual @baphometta.bsky.social · 08/10/2025It typically benefits the powerful to curtail if not destroy their subjects' capacity for inquisitiveness and understanding, besides that money would obvs be better spent mindlessly consuming corporate-approved spectacles instead of at some commie lib university 000
AndyLXNEN @andrewlxnen.bsky.social · 08/10/2025The party of free market capitalism are shocking hypocritical when people freely choose the ‘wrong’ education! 000
The Grumpy Nihilist @andycowan.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Because Tim, politics in Britain now punishes choices that don’t boost GDP. The “rip-off degree” panic is middlebrow moralism—learning must have ROI, universities are job factories, and studying English is seen as a luxury, not the foundation of language itself. 010
Nikola @greasyboiler.bsky.social · 08/10/2025We must get rid of all this woke English-hating nonsense like [squints] English! yeah 020
Bobs Rail Relics @bobsrailrelics.co.uk · 08/10/2025Circus and performance foundation degree at Bath Spa uni has 95% employment rate. In fact they don't graduate as most are in work straight away. 070
Anna Adams @annaadams.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Possibly because all that early 80s talk of pursuing graduates who had developed critical thinking skills turned out to be true. And critical thinking is the last thing any politician (or whatever they are these days) wants to encounter. 000
Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social · 08/10/2025And even though each year they pay more for fewer contact hours, often delivered by postgrads only a few years older than themselves, so that they are essentially "self taught". 020
Robert Ramsay @robertramsay.org · 08/10/2025I feel that Badinoch being a moron is a factor. I would have to check, but I'm pretty sure the LibDems aren't doing this. 080
Richard Webb @fasgadh.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Stupidism on the outside, restricting further education to the elite as of old on the inside. 020
Mihai @mihailim.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Because those fields of knowledge are what makes humans human. And we can't be having with that, isn't it. 140
CarolD @carolwildbird.bsky.social · 08/10/2025I'm baffled.. it should be a student's choice. What about our strong cultural industry too.... 010
Asquealia Clark - Lover of Flagons @gingertotty.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Also. It always rankles that THEY got to study “pointless” shit like the CLASSICS and now want to pull the ladder up so the bloody little poor people don’t get to better themselves and their lives with the enrichment education such as that brings. Bastards 1846
Droolian @droolian.bsky.social · 08/10/2025oh dear.... another tory being economical with the truth again..... www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/kem...thelondoneconomic.comTop university course Kemi Badenoch says she was offered 'does not exist'Kemi Badenoch is standing by her version of events - but nobody in the know seems to believe what she's saying... 000
Радужная Дрянь @rainbowjunk.bsky.social · 08/10/2025An interesting fact: in Russia, the humanities are also being undermined, established universities are being destroyed, specialists are being expelled from the country, and similar subjects in schools are being cut and rewritten to suit state propaganda. 190
MJ Herbert @mjherbert.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Looks like the Tories have lost the mime-artist vote.. 031
Super Earth Citizen @funnythings.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Impressive to see a country repeatedly choose to destroy aspects of what made it great. 5150 the entire country for self harm. 010
stercus-uk.bsky.social @stercus-uk.bsky.social · 08/10/2025When the state funded higher education there was a theoretical case for government to have a say on what was taught. Nowadays there is no such imperative. Badenoch and her idiot crew need to pipe down. 010
Dr Barbara Eichner @barbaraeichner.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Indeed, it's not as if Labour are even planning to deliver on their promises for education and the arts. Quite the contrary. 070
Steve 🏳️🌈🇬🇧 @wohyeahwohyeah.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Lots of boomers hate young people being educated to a level they never were and lots of boomers vote Tory. 000
David Hardstaff @davidhardstaff.co.uk · 08/10/2025I may be biased, as an English Lit graduate, but I think "cultural" degrees can often give you a broader perspective than vocational topics. I picked up history, geography, politics, sociology, philosophy, art history, architecture, fashion, design, and a whole host of subjects along the way. 130
MartyH @mogo-uk.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Good job they don’t want to make cuts to English courses. Especially as they’re so good at it. 020
Dymvue @dymvue.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Of course. They ask questions and encourage people to think. 1230
Soph0571 @soph0517.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Far from being rip-off, these r core to UK’s soft power, economy, & identity: Innovators & storytellers who export creativity Researchers who shape public policy & global thought Ppl capable of critical thinking, empathy, & dialogue, the foundation of any healthy society - no wonder they hate them 🙄 1412
Louise Holden @llamaperson.bsky.social · 08/10/2025So the same politicians who throw a fit if schools don't teach Shakespeare are now throwing a fit because universities do teach it. 042
Peter Sharples @sharplespesq.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Their real agenda: - Stop ‘plebs’ getting an education - Create a nation of techies - fine in itself but doesn’t create a more rounded society 020
Cheshire Cafe @cafedecheshire.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Functionally illiterate people are fantastic at consuming without critical though, which Conservatives need in their constituents. 010
Martin Gardner @mglovesfun.bsky.social · 08/10/2025The English language. Famously useless in English-speaking countries. 1100
Paul Ferguson @fergie19.bsky.social · 08/10/2025My son has just started an english degree course. We are thrilled that he gets the chance to do something he lives for three years. Fuck the tories 1110
max-a-ess.bsky.social @max-a-ess.bsky.social · 08/10/202550 years ago Chinese would have ben on her list. 000
Petri Hoppu 🇫🇮🇪🇺🇺🇦🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈☯️⚖️ @tanhupetteri.bsky.social · 08/10/2025How delightful. Anthropology and sociology were downplayed as second-rate disciplines in the Soviet Union, and the performing arts were under the strict control of the state, with all experimental art prohibited. It's easy to see where the Tories get their lessons. Churchill is turning in his grave. 010
Jacky @jacky3344.bsky.social · 08/10/2025It's a good job the tories are going down the plughole, isn't it? That's happening because they're too short-sighted to understand the value of real education. They have only experienced the sort of exam-cramming, prehistoric nonsense they were forced through in their private schools. 000
Stephen Hampshire @shampshire.bsky.social · 08/10/2025I'm constantly baffled that people throughout politics, the media and even education, most of whom hold these "worthless" degrees, are too frightened to try to make the case for them. 41545
Andy King @2primates.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Weirdly, the loudest evangelists for the free market & freedom of choice really don’t seem to like the free market & freedom of choice very much. 030
Nik Love-Gittins @niklg.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Right wingers don't understand art in any of it's forms. And I really don't think she'll be pulling in the votes of those 16-24yr olds anytime soon... 000
Rob Fraser (he/him) @squireknottyash.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Tell you what Kemi - I’ll pay back the cost of my three year rip off English Studies degree if HMRC refund the tax I’ve paid during the 26 year self employed career that course helped me establish. Deal? 020
Mary Shelley’s Fluoxetine @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 08/10/2025if there were more English, History & sundry “rip-off” grads in the US right now, I think we’d be in a better place. I hope your side of the world manages to stave off ghouls like Badenoch and Musk. 010
gregorypeccory.bsky.social @gregorypeccory.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Kemi et al., - just shut the Universities down and start broadcasting Hitlers speeches on all channels and media, why don'tcha you fucking philistines. 020
Stuart Bentley @stuville.bsky.social · 08/10/2025The point is probably it would be cuts for the plebs, while still being lionised at Oxbridge so that you can be sure who is worthy and who isn't. 1180
TheDaddyOtaku 🏳️🌈🇨🇦 (He/Him/Daddy) @thedaddyotaku.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Ignorant people are jealous. 010
Mads Chawner @madschawner.bsky.social · 08/10/2025What is so deeply upsetting is how society seems to be on a nonstop nosedive with literally no ending in sight. How can we be so destructive of everything our parents and grandparents fought so hard for? It’s heartbreaking. We need people who have studied Humanities. We need positive energy. 000