The cost of delivering an arts and history course should be cheaper than say a course requiring a medical-teaching-hospital, a super-computer, wind-tunnel - whatever.
If all you need are some great lecturers, you can poach them and set up a department somewhere with a low cost of living for staff and students.
These subjects are also a fine fit for distance-learning, part-time etc.
Basically, I'd hope that universities would be forced to consider how they could reduce the cost of these courses in a sensible way. Current system of "all of you get on this expensive campus and pay your share" is unfair, as a lot of the benefits of this are skewed.
The cost of delivering an arts and history course should be cheaper than say a course requiring a medical-teaching-hospital, a super-computer, wind-tunnel - whatever.
If all you need are some great lecturers, you can poach them and set up a department somewhere with a low cost of living for staff and students.
These subjects are also a fine fit for distance-learning, part-time etc.
Basically, I'd hope that universities would be forced to consider how they could reduce the cost of these courses in a sensible way. Current system of "all of you get on this expensive campus and pay your share" is unfair, as a lot of the benefits of this are skewed.