You've never needed a degree to be a professional performer – that myth was created by colleges chasing government funding streams some 20 odd years ago and nurtured by parents wanting their children to have a ‘fall back’. Fast forward to now and vocational training is facing its own Don't Look Up moment. ALRA will not be the last casualty.
It's expensive to run a programme of vocational training, as unlike the degree model of ‘throw a hundred people in a lecture theatre with a notebook and one lecturer’, true vocational training means working with small groups of students and giving them lots of contact hours. With the current level of assistance offered by the government, the sums just don't add up.
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