In a shocking announcement this week, the education secretary, Gavin Williamson revealed his plans to cut arts funding by 50% for creative courses throughout England. The money saved, which is approximately £20 million will be invested into the sciences, technology and engineering.
As you can imagine we are not impressed and this move clearly reveals the lack of importance the government believes the arts play in the UK economy… and we are not alone in our disdain. The organisation ‘The public Campaign for the Arts’ immediately set up a petition against these cuts and warned that this move could lead to not only closures of arts related courses but the closure of certain Universities.
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