Given the student is now the primary funder of higher education, there is a case for a new regulator that is capable of regulating the whole sector and operating on behalf of the student by supporting a competitive environment to promote choice, quality and value for money (BIS, 2016b).
Outside of government agencies, the insurance industry is the primary funder of climate-change research.
And even the Arts Council, the primary funder of performing arts companies, is feeling nervous.
On Sept. 11 we learned all the things about Saudi Arabia that we didn't know: that Saudi Arabia was the primary funder of the Taliban, that 15 of the hijackers were disgruntled young Saudis and that Saudi Arabia was allowing fund-raising for Osama bin Laden -- as long as he didn't use the money to attack the Saudi regime.
But, having taken away most of its carrots as the primary funder of universities, the government gave it no new sticks to compensate.
The primary funder of that organisation is Robert Mercer, a hedge fund manager who reportedly pumped $11m into Ted Cruz's presidential campaign.
The government was once the primary funder of research: It funded 67percentt of all research in 1964.
According to the Center for Media and Democracy's Sourcewatch, Philip Morris is a primary funder of various Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse groups, which, under the guise of tort reform, aim to make it harder to bring lawsuits for problems caused by hazardous products.
Other super PAC donors giving to Walker Virginia James, Richard Uihlein and John W. Childs, donors to conservative groups Club for Growth and FreedomWorks, and J. Joe Ricketts, one of the primary funders of the anti-incumbent Campaign for Primary Accountability.
Mr. Ricketts is one of the primary funders of an anti-incumbent "super PAC," the Campaign for Primary Accountability, that has been roiling congressional races throughout the country.
