This study was supported by the Chinese University of Hong Kong Direct Grant (grant number 2009.1.025).1.025
The last two are also former direct grant schools.
The other is a direct grant from the State Legislature for $50,000.
Most of the people who didn't pass went on to the convent grammar school anyway as it was direct grant.
At a stroke, the abolition of grammar and "direct grant" schools made Oxbridge more of a private-school domain.
In each of these cases, the money was a direct grant – with no onus on the companies to repay the donations, regardless of how profitable the grants become.
The direct grant, in the form a budgetary line item, was requested by State Senator Leonard Connors, a Republican who represents Atlantic, Burlington and Ocean Counties.
We should also remember that all other direct grant government funding, such as capital projects, has been stripped from university budgets.
The World Service is to be funded directly from the BBC licence fee, along with BBC Monitoring, rather than a Foreign Office direct grant, from 1 April.
But both boys were sent to board at King Alfred's, a direct grant school in Wantage where Ricks ended up as head boy.
The BBC chairman, Sir Michael Lyons, today admitted the corporation is engaged in "robust" discussions with the government about a reduction in the World Service's £272m annual Foreign Office direct grant.
