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Why universities are bad for the arts

13 May 2021

4:02 PM

13 May 2021

4:02 PM

Members of the arts establishment have spent the past week outraged, following news that for the upcoming academic year funding for university courses in drama, dance, media studies and so on might have to be temporarily halved in order to better fund courses in medicine, nursing, pharmacology, the environment and the various sciences.

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