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Why we must save quality journalism education
Hartlepool Mail
|June 26, 2025
A campaign to 'Save Quality Journalism Education' has been launched following a Government move to cut funding to key training courses.
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Strategic Priorities Grant (SPG) funding is being withdrawn from journalism, media studies and publishing courses for 2025-26. Education secretary Bridget Phillipson has instead instructed the Office for Students to redirect this cash to other 'high cost' subjects like engineering, IT, pre-registration nursing, agriculture, forestry and food science.
Industry leaders have branded the move 'irrational and misguided' at a time when trusted news and the provision of more well-trained journalists is needed more than ever.
This story is from the June 26, 2025 edition of Hartlepool Mail.
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