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When universities depend on taxpayers, their independence and standards suffer :

Who pays to study?

It is depressing to visit Oxford or Cambridge these days. The old buildings are so wonderfully grand that they highlight the cheap, ugly and badly kept new ones. The intellectual history is stunning, too: this is where Newton pondered gravity, and Occam honed his razor. But these days academics at Britain's two finest universities are harried, ill-paid lot; salaries start at a mere Pounds 4,139 ($25,733).
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