Today, the Blavatnik Family Foundation and The New York Academy of Sciences have announced the nine recipients of the 2024 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the UK. The grants, totalling £480,000, recognize research that is transforming medicine, technology, and our understanding of the world across three categories: Chemical Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering, and Life Sciences.
To our universities, foreign students are much more valuable than British ones. Literally so. This is because they’re allowed to impose far higher tuition fees on the former.
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The Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, Professor Irene Tracey, has suggested that graduates donate to their universities on a regular basis to help overcome the chronic underfunding of higher education. This is a reasonable request, but raises in turn a question: why would anyone want to give to our universities in their current state?