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20 Jul, 6 tweets, 2 min read
🧵Today, government cuts to arts and humanities courses were confirmed by @officestudents

These courses face a 50% cut to their subsidies, which will make many unviable, forcing them to close

Here are the courses that are effected:

Performing arts
Music
Drama
Dance
Art

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Design studies
Cinematics and photography
Information services
Publishing
Journalism
Media studies
Clothing production
Footwear production

2/
The cuts aren't restricted to traditional university degrees either, and also target learndirect courses, which are aimed at upskilling adults in employment

Those courses are:

Arts and crafts
Gardening and floristry
Industrial design
Product design
Industrial model making

3/
Technical engineering and drawing
Manufacturing and production
Information studies
Libraries/librarianship
Communications/media
Print/publishing
Moving image/photography/media production

4/
These cuts are one of the biggest attacks on the arts and humanities in living memory

And the universities most vulnerable to course closures will be those with a higher number of less well-off students.

It is beyond disgraceful.
Our full response to the cuts announced today is here👇

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