What's the difference between bursar and bursary?

Bursar


Definition:

  • (n.) A treasurer, or cash keeper; a purser; as, the bursar of a college, or of a monastery.
  • (n.) A student to whom a stipend or bursary is paid for his complete or partial support.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The bursar could not have known that Valemont’s activities had come under scrutiny from an inquiry probing an audacious international money-laundering scheme .
  • (2) There was nothing here to trouble the school bursar, who did nothing wrong.
  • (3) His father, the Rev Harry Carpenter, was Warden of Keble College, and Humphrey recalled as a small boy roaming the gothic vastness of the lodgings and college on his tricycle, terrorising the undergraduates and bursar in what he described as "a wonderful Gormenghast existence".
  • (4) Payne says she has had no guidance in how to apply for available money either, and the bursar, Elizabeth Harrex, confirms that there has been no communication from the local authority.
  • (5) A fastidiously shoe-shone testament to the lament that modern British politics doesn't attract the best and the brightest, Duncan Smith would, in a true meritocracy, have come out of a distinctly average stint in the army and taken a position as a bursar of some minor public school clinging desperately to the Sussex cliffs.
  • (6) Brinton, a former Cambridge university bursar, who has moved to Watford, dismisses Harrington as a well-heeled novice ("his literature is hopeless"), a latecomer and – for Muslim voters – executive board chairman of Conservative Friends of Israel.
  • (7) This, says the school's bursar, Dawn Revess, will be “the real community hub, the equivalent of the local village hall.” So far it has hosted a talk by the Met Police commissioner and a couple of commercial conferences.
  • (8) He had led a fairly active life and recently retired (1986) as a bursar from a secondary school.

Bursary


Definition:

  • (n.) The treasury of a college or monastery.
  • (n.) A scholarship or charitable foundation in a university, as in Scotland; a sum given to enable a student to pursue his studies.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His cabinet colleagues promised to increase bursaries and loans for students and to cut fuel bills – something for the middle-class, something for the workers.
  • (2) The bursaries will provide studio space for up to six months and a living allowance while they rebuild their portfolios.
  • (3) The same can be said of education bursaries and money channelled through the Constituency Development Fund (CDF), various audits into the CDF kitty have revealed massive corruption."
  • (4) They will have access to higher maintenance grants, new fee waivers and student bursaries.
  • (5) Adesunloye’s new film, White Colour Black , will be shown at the LFF alongside films from the other three (white) finalists for the inaugural IWC Schaffhausen Filmmakers bursary award.
  • (6) A typical scheme from one of the Russell group universities, combined with government grants, gives fee reductions or bursaries totalling about £6,000 for students from families with incomes up to £25,000, falling to about £4,500 just above it and then tapering off to be withdrawn by the time family income reaches £43,000.
  • (7) Scrap the social work bursary, and lose students like us Read more The government’s recent announcement that it plans to make the Frontline graduate development programme a national scheme – where trainees receive a salary instead of a bursary – has only increased suspicion among those delivering the courses.
  • (8) But the scheme, described as "16-19 bursaries", represents a cut of two-thirds from the previous £560m annual budget and will be targeted only at the poorest students, so depriving hundreds of thousands of students of state support for further education.
  • (9) A means-tested bursary, not exclusive to social work, is another option.
  • (10) The Christian lobby group Care (Christian Action Research and Education), which helped to support Nadine Dorries's proposed abortion amendment last month, has connections with researchers working for six MPs, in several instances offering bursaries to fund researchers' time in Westminster.
  • (11) The Charity Commission has acknowledged before that schools will need time to set up partnerships or introduce bursary programmes.
  • (12) Students receive a bursary in their first year followed by paid work placements.
  • (13) Fifty-three percent of bursaried students have honoured their commitment.
  • (14) Westminster University is offering £6,000 bursaries to the first 50 eligible applicants through adjustment, while Northumbria University has been tweeting a similar offer worth £2,000 a year to adjustment-eligible applicants.
  • (15) Our recruitment campaign, Your Future Their Future, is attracting new people and encouraging top graduates to consider training to teach priority subjects like maths, physics and computing, and we continue to offer bursaries worth up to £25,000 and prestigious scholarships.” And then there’s performance-related pay.
  • (16) He gave her the nickname of Dusty, because of her “gold-dust” hair, and an Arts Council bursary of £500 covered the cost of their marriage in 1958.
  • (17) But Ledniczky, who went to Maidstone grammar school in Kent, explains: "I'm lucky that I'll come out of college in the US with no debt at all thanks to Harvard's generous bursary system.
  • (18) John Cater, vice-chancellor of Edge Hill University, Lancashire, which offers both undergraduate and postgraduate courses, admits: “I think it’s quite likely that bursaries could go.” Cater says the current system in England is confusing and complex, with students often unclear whether they qualify for financial support.
  • (19) Heriot Watt also expects that a third of its student from the rest of the UK will be able to get bursaries to help the new fees.
  • (20) It warned teenagers were also unaware that they could qualify for substantial bursaries and scholarships, and urged ministers to launch a publicity campaign to address the public's misunderstandings over tuition fees.