![]() ![]() ![]() By crunching university outcomes with graduate employment, benefits and earnings data, the government can now tell prospective students roughly the ‘graduate premium’ they can expect from different subjects. They are studying ‘economically useless’ arts and humanities subjects and dragging the graduate job market in the process. The problem, however, is that students aren’t making the right choices. Meanwhile, universities will supposedly ‘incubate’ new technologies, create the UK’s own Google, Apple or Facebook and kickstart the ailing British economy. The Tories hope that by turning education into a market, young people will begin to think of themselves as education consumers, making savvy choices about what degrees will get them the best paid jobs in the future. ![]() This belief, a key tenet of neoliberalism, continues to shape education policy in England. Economists, think tanks and journalists have spent billions of words trying to convince everyone that economic growth comes primarily from technological ‘disruption’ and investment by individuals in their own education and training, rather than from exploitation, imperialism and financial speculation. ![]()
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