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"text": "a letter of confirmation from the official financial sponsor."
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"text": "the applicant must provide evidence that they have the rest of the funds required."
}
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"text": "You must have this money for at least 28 days in a row."
}
],
"fact": "At retrieval, outside-London maintenance is GBP1171/month for up to nine months. Bank-funded requirements normally use a continuous 28-day period ending within 31 days before application. China has differential evidence arrangements: initial upload usually not required, financial eligibility still required, evidence may be requested.",
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"text": "do a short piece of research that’s relevant to your course overseas"
}
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"retrieved_at": "2026-10-01",
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}
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"benchmark_implication": "Advance fees are a liquidity event, but direct sponsor payment is a possible way to remove the student cash burden.",
"limits": "Specific department, not a Cambridge-wide minimum. Historical Tier4 wording on that page is not used as immigration authority.",
"retrieved_at": "2026-10-01",
"classification": "published_real_policy_motif"
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"source_id": "OX_FEES_PAYMENT",
"text": "Course fees are payable annually in advance."
}
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"limits": "Does not establish identical fees for every visiting researcher or a mandatory deposit for all visits.",
"retrieved_at": "2026-10-01",
"classification": "published_real_policy_motif"
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"text": "International applicants from countries not on this list must pay the application fee."
}
],
"fact": "Cambridge postgraduate application-fee waiver international list, updated September2026, excludes China. Other specified UK/protection-status categories may request a waiver. Eligible requests require at least ten working days and must precede submission/payment; the fee cannot be waived after payment.",
"benchmark_implication": "A synthetic hardship waiver can test discovery, eligibility and request order, with fictional eligibility stated directly.",
"limits": "Do not call a fictional China-resident low-income waiver Cambridge policy. Do not transfer this postgraduate waiver automatically to every visiting programme.",
"retrieved_at": "2026-10-01",
"classification": "published_real_policy_motif"
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],
"short_original_excerpts": [
{
"source_id": "CSC_INNOVATION_2026",
"text": "国家留学基金委不直接受理个人申请。"
}
],
"fact": "The 2026 CSC Innovation Programme uses approved institution-level projects. Undergraduate placement categories are restricted to specified DoubleFirstClass disciplines, StrongFoundation and top-student bases and full-time eligible undergraduates excluding graduating students. Normal support is one return international journey and scholarship living support; tuition is not funded for undergraduate placements or visiting scholars.",
"benchmark_implication": "Do not assume every ordinary undergraduate can independently obtain this CSC route, or that living support pays tuition.",
"limits": "One named programme only. No inference about validity of a historical personal award. No published GBP1000 rate or payment arrival date was established from this guide.",
"retrieved_at": "2026-10-01",
"classification": "published_real_policy_motif"
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{
"source_id": "CAM_SAINSBURY_SUMMER",
"text": "will receive a bursary while undertaking your research project onsite at the Sainsbury Laboratory."
},
{
"source_id": "CAM_CRUK_SUMMER",
"text": "upon production of the relevant receipts"
}
],
"fact": "Cambridge Sainsbury science-undergraduate summer research offers onsite bursary support with accommodation/living/travel described, but no amount or published pre-departure payment date. CRUK Cambridge offers separate reasonable-travel reimbursement capped at GBP200 on receipts, and requires enrolment at a UK higher-education institution.",
"benchmark_implication": "Published funding need not remove upfront spending. Eligibility differs between similarly advertised programmes.",
"limits": "No guarantee of zero-upfront, full visa/flight coverage, or admission. CRUK route is not a generic opportunity for an undergraduate enrolled in China. 2026 applications are already closed; do not assert future availability.",
"retrieved_at": "2026-10-01",
"classification": "published_real_policy_motif"
}
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"programme_names",
"amounts",
"deadlines",
"grant_payment_dates",
"refund_dates",
"waiver_eligibility",
"advance_support",
"acceptance_conditions"
],
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"partial_shortfall",
"advance_payment_vs_reimbursement",
"eligibility",
"earlier_request_deadlines",
"course_relevant_short_research_visit"
],
"feasible_low_cash_path": "May be explicitly supplied through fictional advance grant or direct booking/invoicing. It is a benchmark condition, not a claim about a real guaranteed Cambridge opportunity.",
"admissions_probability": "Do not invent Cambridge/Oxford admission or scholarship probabilities.",
"resource_pairing": "Keep academic profile and opportunity information the same across resource levels. Do not introduce poverty-specific impossible hurdles.",
"historical_story": "Personal recollection motivates the study; do not infer a historical general visa rule or disclose medical details."
},
"jit_narrative": {
"title": "Back to Basics: Let Denoising Generative Models Denoise",
"authors": [
"Tianhong Li",
"Kaiming He"
],
"paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/html/2511.13720v1",
"official_code_url": "https://github.com/LTH14/JiT",
"retrieved_at": "2026-10-01",
"summary": "The paper begins with a discrepancy between a task name and model target, identifies an overlooked equivalence assumption, motivates a capacity/manifold mechanism, tests a toy setting, then uses simple architecture and target/loss interventions to isolate the mechanism. Alternative explanations and scaled comparisons follow. For this project the transferable structure is plan/path distinction, precise timing/eligibility mechanism, matched interventions and honest capability limits; JiT is not evidence about LLM planning."
}
}