Government needs to axe funding on mickey mouse degrees

Lets be realistic now people, do you want to fund somebodys three year course on events management and retail management (corner shops)?

The government should wake up and stop giving money to these silly micky mouse degrees on all the colours of the rainbow. Core degrees like science, medicine, maths, law etc are being cut when the real people like silly international beauty retail or some crazy stuff need to be axed.

I am not attacking the humanities or saying they are worse than science based degrees, but the silly ones like events or managment that we do not need.

I recently read there is a degree in international football, puppetry and golf management? WHAT A WASTE

Next thing we know we'll be doing degress on sofas and short skirts while relevant subjects take the bat

Lets be realistic now people, do you want to fund somebodys three year course on events management and retail management (corner shops)?

The government should wake up and stop giving money to these silly micky mouse degrees on all the colours of the rainbow. Core degrees like science, medicine, maths, law etc are being cut when the real people like silly international beauty retail or some crazy stuff need to be axed.

I am not attacking the humanities or saying they are worse than science based degrees, but the silly ones like events or managment that we do not need.

I recently read there is a degree in international football, puppetry and golf management? WHAT A WASTE

Next thing we know we'll be doing degress on sofas and short skirts while relevant subjects take the bat

you do realize that management leads to MBA and those people run the top firms around the world. Micky Mouse degrees my ass.

Retail managment is not a corner shop you dope. It means running anything in the retail industry.

Golf management would actually be of some sort of advantage in managing a golf course.

Anyhow, I'm just going to ignore your blatant bashing of Mickey Mouse subjects and just say that you should really just know how much money the uni covers for those courses on the other side.

If that is beneath the £3,290 a year, no cuts need to be made. Right? If we actually had some indication of how much these Mickey Mouse subjects cost, then we'd be able to judge the situation quite easily instead of jumping on the 'let's-cut-funding-to-all-Mickey-Mouse-subjects' bandwagon.

I guess the questions to ask are how many golf courses are there compared to the number of graduates, do their managers really need to have an academic degree and just how useful those skills in these courses are in other jobs. I don't see a degree in "football pitch management" and groundsmen have been doing a fantastic job without a degree, there is no scope for any research in this field and it is a vocation, so really a Golf Management Degree is not an academic subject that needs to be taught in university.