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Ramsay Foundation may cut ties with Centre for Western Civilisation

Foundation’s funding for centre at risk amid controversy over western civilisation university course

The foundation set up by the late health billionaire Paul Ramsay is in talks with the controversial Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation over possibly severing the connection between the two and ending the use of the Ramsay name.

The talks are understood to be ongoing. They follow two years of controversy over the western civilisation university course proposed by the Ramsay Centre and the level of control it has sought over the course when dealing with possible host universities.

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from World news | The Guardian http://bit.ly/2W9S312

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