I'm putting myself in harm's way for their college fund.

And if he makes money from his programming work, it will go straight into his college fund.

In the five years since he has used his savings and raided his son's college fund to pay for operations that his insurance company refused to cover.

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The deal comes more than two decades after the college funded the development of the estate as a business centre for start-ups and international companies to conduct research.