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EDUCATION Minister Brendan Nelson wants Parliament to grant him the power to cut funding to "bizarre" university degrees for such things as surfing, aromatherapy and considering whether Jesus Christ was a homosexual.

Despite fears the move is an attack on academic freedom, Dr Nelson said yesterday that taxpayers wanted more lawyers, veterinarians and teachers before they funded "silly" degrees. ...

"If a university is silly enough to offer a particular course and students want to do it, there would be some circumstances conceivably where people would expect the minister to say 'sorry, but the taxpayer is going to put his or her resources into teaching and nursing, rather than the paranormal or the whereabouts of Elvis Presley'."

Samantha Maiden, News.com.au: 'Bizarre' degrees to be targeted