| Comment | I haven't looked at their site too closely, but I believe they're mainly mentioning things which are already charitable in nature anyways? e.g when I went there I got a scholarship that was funded by a charity, and the University's role there was really to select people for those scholarships and potentially top up those scholarships in some circumstances (e.g if students need to repeat a year, or do an integrated masters or something like that).
Whether this should be the case is another question, but it's nothing terribly new especially when it comes to alumni-focused donations. (Sometimes it's the sort of thing that *could* be funded by other sources, research grants and so on, but the processes for that can be particularly burdensome so things like that are more efficient - I vaguely recall the RNLI working pretty similarly for one example) |
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