More on today’s (UK) higher education system
It's always got my goat a little that most of the highest-earning students post-graduation, the few who will actually for sure be able to pay their student education and maintenance loan off, will come from STEM, while at the same time the cost of the STEM students' degrees in the first place is subsidised by all the other students' degree prices being artificially raised beyond what they actually cost to run, in the interest of some idea of fairness or treating everyone equally although they are in different situations.
It does not cost £9k a year to have several contact hours with a professor a week and access to a reference library. Yet, that's what students on courses that are set up that way are forced to pay, while for the same price STEM students are getting 35+ contact hours a week, the use of expensive and specific machinery, buildings, and technical rooms, class trips, demonstrations using expensive resources, and so on.
And all the while the STEM students grumble at and look down on students of other subjects for having the temerity to exist and have skills in different fields, all - or at least many - of which are crucial in different ways to completing different tasks within business, industry, and our society. It really feels like someone up several steps on the ladder is playing us at a divide and conquer game here so we don’t notice who’s really being taken for a ride. Spoiler - it’s not just a single group of us.