Cambridge LEGO professor and research centre: price tag ?4m

The foundation owns 25 per cent of LEGO, 바카라사이트 Denmark-based toy company.

Cambridge¡¯s general board, which recommends 바카라사이트 approval of 바카라사이트 plans, has also suggested that a professorship of financial economics be established with a $25 million (?16.2 million) donation from Weslie R. Janeway, a geneticist, and her husband William H. Janeway, a senior adviser and managing director at US private equity firm Warburg Pincus, who is also a visiting scholar at Cambridge.

The proposals for 바카라사이트 professorships will go before 바카라사이트 university¡¯s Regent House for approval in July.

The of Cambridge¡¯s official journal, The Reporter, includes a notice from Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, 바카라사이트 vice-chancellor, saying that ¡°he has accepted with gratitude a benefaction of ?1.5m from 바카라사이트 LEGO Foundation, payable over three years, of which both 바카라사이트 capital and 바카라사이트 income may be used to support a Research Centre on Play in Education, Development, and Learning within 바카라사이트 Faculty of Education over 바카라사이트 same period¡±.

It adds that 바카라사이트 LEGO Foundation ¡°is also proposing to fund a LEGO professorship of play in education, development, and learning with a benefaction of ?2.5m¡±.

Cambridge¡¯s general board has recommended 바카라사이트 establishment of 바카라사이트 professorship from October 2015. The LEGO professor would be director of 바카라사이트 Research Centre on Play in Education, Development and Learning (PEDaL).

The LEGO Foundation, a ¡°corporate foundation¡±, describes its aims, in general, as being ¡°to make children¡¯s lives better ¨C and communities stronger ¨C by making sure 바카라사이트 fundamental value of play is understood, embraced and acted upon¡±.

The Reporter also states that Cambridge¡¯s board has ¡°accepted an academic case from 바카라사이트 Council of 바카라사이트 School of 바카라사이트 Humanities and Social Sciences for 바카라사이트 establishment from 1?October 2015 of a Janeway Professorship of Financial Economics in 바카라사이트 Faculty of Economics¡±.

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