Your coverage of the British Academy’s report on media courses in higher education was accurate and welcome (Media studies are popular, dynamic and have ‘profound impact’, report says, 11 June). Chatting with students earlier this month at the first degree show of UCL’s new media BA (a programme I co-designed), I was impressed by their integration of intellectual rigour with creative flair in film-making and video game design.
But education policy needs to examine the wider consequences. What’s true for higher education should also be true for schools, where, despite the popularity of media-related exam courses for 14- to 19-year olds, media studies has effectively been deleted from the curriculum over the last 14 years, having previously been a core component under Labour policy.
