# Gates' scholarship fund to benefit Cambridge

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2000/05/23/gates039-scholarship-fund-benefit-cambridge/
- Published: 2000-05-23T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Bill Gates is talking to the University of Cambridge about establishing a global
scholarship programme worth at least £130m.

Bill Gates is talking to the University of Cambridge about establishing a global
scholarship programme worth at least £130m. It would fund at least 230 bursaries
each year, rivalling the Rhodes scholarships at Oxford University.

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Read Gates eyes Cambridge for global scholarship fund by Rebecca Smithers at The
Guardian.

Also in today’s Guardian (G2 section) is an interview with Patty Stonesifer, who
runs the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The article is not on The Guardian’s
Web site so you’ll have to buy the newspaper.