Government negativity and neglect towards the creative industries is harming this important sector, a new select committee report argues.
And the DfE is a prime offender:
The Department for Education’s sweeping rhetoric about ‘low value courses’ is unhelpful […] The Department for Education, in providing strategic direction to the Office for Students, should change its approach to ‘low value courses’ to take better account of the realities of work in the creative industries. This should take more detailed account of business lifecycles and freelance work.
Degrees in creative disciplines may not lead to stellar short- and medium-term graduate outcomes – but talking them down has the potential for real economic harm, the report from the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee argues.
