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\nSacrificing humanities to Techno-Tehan  \nJim Daly  \nMonash University  \nThis article questions the use of the term ‘siloed’ to describe certain degrees or subjects in the Australian university curriculum. Education Minister Dan Tehan used the term as part ofa justification of a re-set of funding priorities for university education from 2021 which he announced in June 2020. The Minister partly turned his argument on the floating of an impression that humanities degrees are ‘siloed’. They or, more specifically, units within them, would become more expensive for students since ‘job readiness’ needs to be prioritised. The author analyses the term, its uses and applications to fields of knowledge, and concludes that such a term is neither accurate nor useful. He suggests that focusing on needs arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic might provide a less conflicted and future-oriented way of thinking about the problem rather than making superficial judgments ofthe merits of particular undergraduate degrees as a foundation for dictating education and education funding policy.  \nOn 18 July 2020, Federal Education Minister, Senator Dan Tehan, announced Government plans for education to be putin place in response to the economic effects in Australia of the COVID-19 pandemic. The main focus of his announcement (National Press Club Announcement) was the need for undergraduates to take up degrees which would provide jobs and quickly serve the needs of the economy in a national task of job building and rebuilding. To act in this way would, he argued, spur recovery from the recession into which the country had fallen, and, in the process, lead directly to jobs for young people (Tehan, 2020a).  \nIn the course of his speech (National Press Club Address, 2020), Senator Tehan outlined cheaper levels of fees for certain courses and dearer ones for others. The cheaper levels included education, IT, medicine and nursing, and STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects. Subjects like law and economics would be dearer. In general, fees for the humanities would be 113 per cent higher. Most school leavers and their parents would regard such costs as intimidating. It seems likely that this is the point of increasing costs, in a strategy to enforce what the Government regards as priorities, a not entirely unreasonable approach from a  \n90 The elusive siloed subjects Jim Daly  \nbudgetary point ofview:  \nUniversities will play a crucial role in producing the job-ready graduates that Australia will need to drive its post COVID- 19 recovery. Our universities’ response to the Government’s challenge to roll out short courses demonstrated they can be innovative and flexible in skilling and re-skilling Australians. We will need to harness that innovation as Australia reshapesthe higher education architecture with a greater focus on domestic students – specifically regional and Indigenous Australians – and a greater alignment with industry needs.(Dan Tehan (2020b), ‘Job Ready Graduates’, 19 June 2020)  \nOne of the main justifications which Senator Tehan in his presentation offered for deciding on such a cost was that the humanities subjects are instances of what he called ‘siloed’subjects: ‘We are encouraging students to embrace diversity and not think about their education as a siloed degree.’(Tehan, 2020b).  \nHe argued that if you are going to learn history, you should perhaps learn how to teach history, and be a teacher. Citing his own story, he argued that if you are going to do economics, perhaps you should learn another language. He confessed that his lack of a language had limited him earlier in his career in  \nvol. 62, no. 2, 2020  \nA U S T R A L I A N U N I V E R S I T I E S ’ R E V I E W  \nobtaining a job. However, many arts degrees are structuredin such a way that there is already a degree of flexibility and variety across subject areas so that a","cbCaivwH7TXq3s0E","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivwH7TXq3s0E","pdf",171590,"English","# The term “siloed” in university education\n## Funding changes and job readiness framing\n## Fee differences for humanities and STEM\n## Critique of accuracy and usefulness of “siloed”\n## COVID-19–oriented rethinking","[{\"question\":\"What does the article question about the “siloed” term?\",\"answer\":\"It questions using “siloed” to describe certain degrees or subjects in Australia’s university curriculum and argues the framing is inaccurate and unhelpful.\"},{\"question\":\"How did Dan Tehan use the concept in his funding justification?\",\"answer\":\"The article explains that Tehan tied the “siloed” idea to a reset of funding priorities, implying humanities units would become more expensive because “job readiness” should be prioritized.\"},{\"question\":\"What alternative approach does the author suggest?\",\"answer\":\"The author suggests focusing on needs arising from the COVID-19 pandemic as a less conflicted, more future-oriented way to think about the problem rather than judging specific undergraduate degrees.\"}]","The elusive siloed subjects - Jim Daly - Volume 62 - Issue 2 - 2020 | PDF",1792080198]