Trump administration bars Harvard from future research grants

United States President Donald Trump’s administration has announced that Harvard University will no longer receive public funding for research in a sharp escalation of its dispute with the elite institution.

In a letter to Harvard on Monday, US Education Department Secretary Linda McMahon said the elite university had made a “mockery” of higher education and should no longer seek federal grants, “since no will be provided”.

“Harvard will cease to be a publicly funded institution, and can instead operate as a privately-funded institution, drawing on its colossal endowment, and raising money from its large base of wealthy alumni,” McMahon wrote in the letter.

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