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| Buddy, can you spare a £5bn? |
Earlier this week the Higher Education Statistics Agency announced that income from research grants and contracts totalled £5.08bn in 2013-14.
This is an impressive amount, but if you were a Russian oligarch and had a spare £5bn to splash, what else could you spend it on, if you didn't want to bankroll the cost of pushing forward the boundaries of knowledge? It's always useful to be prepared should you ever be asked, so here's the Fundermentals cut-out-and-keep guide:
