June 2020 News

11 June 2020, Financial Times

Reuben brothers fund new Oxford college with £80m donation

The first Oxford college to be created in 30 years will open to graduates next year following an £80m donation by two of the UK’s richest and most secretive businessmen. David and Simon Reuben, Indian-born, London-raised brothers who built a fortune partly from metals trading in the “Wild East” of the former Soviet Union in […]

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11 June 2020, University of Oxford

Landmark £80m donation from the Reuben Foundation

Oxford University has announced a landmark £80m donation from the Reuben Foundation that will transform Oxford’s newest college and establish a major new scholarship programme. The University last year established its 39th college – the first for 30 years – as a new base for graduate students who are eager to embrace opportunities for interdisciplinary […]

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11 June 2020, timeshighereducation.com

Oxford receives £80m donation for new graduate college

The University of Oxford has received an £80 million gift from the Reuben Foundation to support a new graduate college, the first new Oxford college in 30 years, and establish a student scholarship programme. The institution announced that the college will be named Reuben College in recognition of the donation and welcome its first master’s […]

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11 June 2020, The Times

Reuben brothers give £80m to Oxford for new college

Oxford University has received £80 million from the Reuben brothers, the billionaire property tycoons, to endow its first post-graduate college in 30 years. Reuben College will open in September next year to 120 postgraduates and will specialise in the study of cellular life, artificial intelligence and environmental change. It will take a multi-disciplinary approach which […]

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11 June 2020, Bloomberg.com

Billionaire Brothers Donate $101 Million to Oxford University

The charitable foundation of David and Simon Reuben has donated 80 million pounds ($101 million) to Oxford University’s newest college. The gift will fund scholarships and research into areas like environmental change. The institute will be renamed Reuben College, according to a statement Thursday. “The current pandemic has shown us just how vital it is […]

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