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Opinion: Why slashing funds for arts courses is a bad idea

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There is certainly a case to be made for rapidly increasing our national competencies in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (Stem) in higher education.

As a country, we cannot hope to make any material progress if every time we have a complicated engineering problem we have to bring in outsiders. Our universities need more stem researchers. And our primary and secondary schools need more stem teachers.

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