Ellison Institute of Technology
The whole thing looks disingenuous to me. I have concerns about the genuineness of the scholarship program itself but that’s not my main issue here-their sketchy Trump loving billionaire CEO for one, but some are saying he pulled out. Does anyone know what is really happening? He’ll still benefit anyway. Why are we letting American oligarchs establish a presence here and risk foreign interference? In not only the city but potentially the university too. I know they aren’t PART of the university but it’s worrying how much they’re trying to create ties with it. I don’t like how they claim to be revolutionary or investing into the education here when they’re just another pathetic AI promoting group using students they decide will help contribute most towards their aim to achieve it. They don’t seem to contribute to British interests at all let alone the city. Even their scholarships fund already very wealthy kids (of the undergraduates only two are British) who clearly wouldn’t have got their scholarships if not for elite opportunities available to them. So what’s the point of a so called “merit based” scholarship that is basically only open to those kids who will always have great options with basically no account for kids who did not have these opportunities available. They want kids who co author research and publish in journals and kids who win olympiads with acronyms no one outside of the top 1% with crazy pushy parents would have ever heard of in their life. Scholarships for wealthy kids! What I like about UK scholarships is that they actually try to make their criteria just if it’s merit based. Anyway I did say my main issue wasn’t the fund but their funding clearly has strings attached which is basically to further their self interested goal and these poor kids are used as their pawns. How their construction plans were approved I’ll never know. We need to start questioning the motives of these big money companies before allowing them to have such a big influence in our country