This aim of this drive is for the university to try to keep up with many other universities around the world in an attempt to secure Oxford's future as one of the world's leading centres of learning and research, as they fear being left behind in an education arena that is competing more and more in a globalised market.

How ironic it is that Oxford University are trying to raise this money by portraying themselves as a leading institution of research at the very time when they are completing the work on an obsolete, increasingly doubtful and unnecessarily cruel new animal research lab. Oxford had the chance to lead the way in cutting edge research, to forge a name for themselves as forward thinking and original in the fields of science and medicine. But unfortunately they decided to invest valuable time, money and resources into an outdated and dubious research centre and at a time when the accuracy of such research is so doubtful.

It’s about time Oxford University realised that if they want to retain a reputation as a top university and attract the huge amounts of funding they need to do this, they need to stop living in the dark ages of mutilating animals and step into the future of alternative research.