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"Harvard, whose endowment of $26 billion (GBP13.8 billion) exceeds total annual funding for all British universities"

that gives a powerful indication of the sheer scale of the imbalance between the resources at the disposal of UK and US education institutions.



Except that it's comparing a capital sum with an annual expenditure, which is rather misleading. A capital sum will ordinarily be around 20x as big as the annual income it generates (though no doubt Harvard gets better returns than the average nonprofit).




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