Cambridge University receives £100m gift from former student

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Donation by financier David Harding will primarily be used to assist Phd students

 

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Nice to see a whole 1% of that is ring fenced for T̶o̶k̶e̶n̶i̶s̶m̶ diversity.

Massive philanthropy by a hedge fund manager brings out the haters.

Don't Oxford receive more in donation than they make from student fees? Perhaps intake is about future legacy (donations) rather than ability.

Excellence in academic research costs money. Making the best better seems like a great way to advance humanity.

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Its ring fenced for the support of students from disadvantaged and minority ethnic backgrounds. Read the article not just the headline 👍

Because of all the places that need a hand out, Cambridge somehow came top

The final sentence... 😐

More power to you all. The world sure needs scholarship of high order and a new desire to stop Earth from going hot-house big time. It involves seeing that the money we, the world uses is present as debt against this; it's a law of heat flow thing about time and entropy to nth 2C

Look as though they desperately needed it...

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