Transatlantic cash gulf grows

Article Abstract:

The pitiful size of the endowment funds enjoyed by universities in the United Kingdom when compared with those of their US counterparts has been exposed by a new report released by The Sutton Trust. The research reveals that even the two best endowed universities in the UK, Oxford and Cambridge, with total endowment worth an estimated UKPd2 bil each, would only come in 15th on a league table of US institutions. The next nearest UK university is Edinburgh, with endowments of UKPd160 mil in 2001-2002, which would place it 150th on the US list. The leading US university in 2001-2002 was Harvard, with endowments worth UKPd10.7 bil, followed by Yale with UKPd6.6 bil and the University of Texas with UKPd5.4 bil.

United Kingdom, United States, Financial management, Colleges & Universities, Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools, Colleges and universities, Evaluation, Reports, Company financing, Rankings, Educational aspects

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Student cash in melting pot

Article Abstract:

The UK government is to undertake a review of undergraduate tuition fees and student loans. The results of the review, which will look at options including establishing new bursaries for poor students, will be published in early 2002.

Education policy, College students, Higher education and state

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V-cs attacked for ducking fight for cash

Article Abstract:

University vice chancellors have decided not to fight for more funding for higher education because they do not think the government would respond.

Cover Story, Education, Higher

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