(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students from families with incomes up to £25,000, falling to about £4,500 just above it and then tapering off to be withdrawn by the time family income reaches £43,000.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.
Grant
Definition:
(v. t.) To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition.
(v. t.) To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give.
(v. t.) To admit as true what is not yet satisfactorily proved; to yield belief to; to allow; to yield; to concede.
(v. i.) To assent; to consent.
(v. t.) The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.
(v. t.) The yielding or admission of something in dispute.
(v. t.) The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.
(v. t.) A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, au appropriation or conveyance made by the government; as, a grant of land or of money; also, the deed or writing by which the transfer is made.
Example Sentences:
(1) The highest rate of discontinuation occurred when method choice was denied in the presence of husband-wife agreement on method choice, and the lowest rate occurred when method choice was granted in the presence of such concurrence.
(2) "And in my judgment, when the balance is struck, the factors for granting relief in this case easily outweigh the factors against.
(3) Project grants to selected State and local agencies amounted to about $.8 billion.
(4) 2010 2 May : In a move that signals the start of the eurozone crisis, Greece is bailed out for the first time , after eurozone finance ministers agree to grant the country rescue loans worth €110bn (£84bn).
(5) 5) Raise the adult learning grant from £30 to £45 a week.
(6) We didn’t take anyone’s votes for granted and we have run a very strong positive campaign.” Asked if she expected Ukip to run have Labour so close, she said: “To be honest with you I have been through more or less every scenario.
(7) Britain has been the Gates foundation’s second largest recipient, receiving 25 grants worth $156m since 2003.
(8) In 2013 it successfully applied for a Visa Innovation Grant , a fund for development and non-profit organisations seeking to adopt or expand the use of electronic payments to those living below the poverty line.
(9) The prime minister said: “I am taking absolutely nothing for granted.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump signs order reviving controversial pipeline projects “The Obama administration correctly found that the Tribe’s treaty rights needed to be respected, and that the easement should not be granted without further review and consideration of alternative crossing locations,” said Jan Hasselman, an attorney for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.
(11) They were granted “extraordinary leave” and left with their military equipment to be captured or killed on the streets of the Chechen capital.
(12) Some clinicians believe that increasing resistance by relatives to granting permission contributes to the falling rates, but this is a minority view.
(13) Australia has also previously granted refugee status to people who fled these countries.
(14) Komen spokeswoman Leslie Aun said the cut-off results from the charity's newly adopted criteria barring grants to organisations that are under investigation by local, state or federal authorities.
(15) The committee's report also said it was concerned about decisions to grant asylum to people "who later emerge to be involved with terrorist activity".
(16) The Coalition has also been warned about the costs of voluntary grants schemes.
(17) She is still waiting to hear whether she will be granted asylum.
(18) Students from low-income backgrounds will be eligible to apply for top-up grants up to a further £3,250, dependant on household income (ie the full £3,250 grant will be available up to a household income of £25,000 and a partial grant up to a household income of £60,000).
(19) The award to Sorrell is thought to be the second-largest granted to a FTSE 100 chief executive, behind only the £92m in shares and cash paid to Bart Becht while he was chief executive of Reckitt Benckiser in 2009.
(20) The following criteria were used to document program enhancement after the implementation of a microcomputer laboratory: faculty and student attitudes toward computer-assisted instruction (CAI); student anxiety scores toward state board examinations; increased visibility of the college (number of authored CAI modules, CAI grants, computer committee memberships, faculty attendance at computer courses); and relationship involving learning style, attitude, and student learning.