But the Russell Group of top universities calculates that graduates in the upper 20 percent of earners could end up paying at least 16, 000 pounds a year–far more than the cost of their education.

英国大学“罗素联盟”统计了收入水平占前20%的毕业生的缴纳金额后得出，他们每年可能要支付高达1.6万英镑的毕业税，这要比交学费贵得多。

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Not so the top universities that make up the “Russell group”, however.

构成“罗素联盟”的顶尖大学却不是这样。

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Chinese parents value academic rigor highly, with many U. K. -educated children going on to Britain's top-tier "Russell Group" universities to study science.

中国家长高度重视学术的严谨性，很多在英国受教育的中国少年进入英国顶尖的“罗素大学集团”学习科学和数学。

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The most selective Russell Group universities would also have a new role in supervising the content of A-levels, ensuring they are sufficiently challenging.

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But Wendy Piatt, the group's director general, said it was "simply not true", as the proportion of state-school students at Russell Group universities had risen by 9% since 1997.

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And the 1994 Group challenged suggestions that it should be the Russell Group universities which were involved - saying influence should not be restricted to an "arbitrarily selected cadre".

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