I have mixed feelings about this item. Terry Freedman laments the commercialization, which he conflates with "the government's insistence that graduates secure well-paying jobs within a certain period of time after graduating." One the one hand, sure, I believe that people should be able to take courses in Egyptology because they are interested in the subject, even if no job results. On the other hand, I am not in favour of a system where only people with time and money to spare can take courses in Egyptology. But on the third hand, it's not fair to low income people to offer courses in Egyptology that offer no opportunity for employment or advancement. But all these are the contortions of a dysfunctional system. People - rich or poor - should be able to study Egyptology and make a decent living even if they end up working in (shudder) the service industry.
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