A degree course doesn't need to be LABELLED 'English Traditional Music' to include English traditional music.

Universities need to attract as many students as possible, and the fact that Scottish and Irish universities have undergraduate courses on musics of their respective countries is presumably because they've done their market research and know this is what students, and their tax payers, want. It's also a political thing, because those countries have historically needed to assert their identities as a response to perceived Anglicisation.

WAV fails to recognise that tunes and songs don't recognise geographical borders in their travels. The early collectors were set on finding a 'national music', but we've moved beyond that now, surely. Most (not all, eg Kidson) also prioritized orally transmitted songs as being in some sense 'pure' folk. We now know that broadsides, music hall, dialect poetry, printed music collections and even recordings have informed the kind of traditional folk music we all love.

The music of these isles is a wonderful kaleidoscope of songs and tunes: a rich mix indeed. As Greg Stephens says elsewhere: "there never was any such animal as 'English traditional music', just various different kinds of 'traditional music in England', quite a different concept altogether."