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8 Things You Should Know About David Willetts
A recent May Day carnival ended up gate-crashing a lecture David Willetts was giving on the future of (private) funding for university science research. We all know him as the man behind tripled fees and the botched HE White Paper, but were you aware of these lesser-known facts about the Universities Minister?