Donation by financier David Harding will primarily be used to assist Phd studentsThe University of Cambridge is celebrating the largest single donation to an English university in recent history, after announcing a gift of £100m from the financier David Harding to support students. The final £1m will help fund Cambridge’s access programmes aimed at attracting disadvantaged students. The fund to support postgraduate students, to be known as the Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholars Programme, will begin this year. Cambridge said that the programme will ultimately fully fund, in perpetuity, more than 100 PhD students in residence at any one time. The financier’s most recent high-profile donation was an estimated £3.5m to help fund the Britain Stronger in Europe campaign before the 2016 referendum.

Source: The Guardian February 05, 2019 06:00 UTC