(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students from families with incomes up to £25,000, falling to about £4,500 just above it and then tapering off to be withdrawn by the time family income reaches £43,000.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.
Scholarship
Definition:
(n.) The character and qualities of a scholar; attainments in science or literature; erudition; learning.
(n.) Literary education.
(n.) Maintenance for a scholar; a foundation for the support of a student.
Example Sentences:
(1) An Ofsted for universities Read more Too often a commitment to learning and teaching is presented in opposition to engagement with research and scholarship, but the two should be inextricably linked.
(2) The reality is I like football so much, I miss football, and when I have the chance to be back I will come back.” Mourinho, who was joined by his agent Jorge Mendes to speak to children at the NorthLight school as part of the Valencia chairman Peter Lim’s Olympic scholarship, added: “It’s quite a funny career.
(3) Ahmed has been offered a scholarship to take him through high school and university by the Qatar Foundation, a public-private education partnership in the Middle Eastern state.
(4) I received scholarships the past two years in Jordan.
(5) Each year, two candidates are given scholarships worth £9,000 each over the course of a three-year degree, plus work experience.
(6) Leanne Whitehouse did not respond to questions about whether Frances Abbott was offered the scholarship in accordance with the school’s policy, or how many scholarships were awarded each year.
(7) In 1960, 300 Kenyans were awarded Kennedy scholarships to study at US colleges and universities.
(8) Les Taylor, the chairman of the Whitehouse Institute of Design board of governors, personally recommended the prime minister’s daughter for a $60,000 design degree scholarship, and has also made donations of more than $20,000 to the state and federal Liberal party.
(9) Guardian Australia has confirmed that she received a scholarship during her time at the institute.
(10) I decided to take a chance and apply, and soon after I became the first recipient of the new scholarship.
(11) Publication opportunities are often limited, and individual scholarship is difficult to express and evaluate within the context of a cooperative trial.
(12) Crawford is on a 50% scholarship, which means his fees are reduced to about £11,000 over two years.
(13) When I finished my degree, in biology, I was lucky to get a scholarship for four years.
(14) These include scholarships to the London School of Economics and City University and annual donations to the Red Cross and World Wildlife Fund.
(15) Alicia White, 25, defied the odds of a poor background by attending college on a partial scholarship and going to graduate school.
(16) Utilizing feminist scholarship in psychoanalysis, history, and sociology, the paper analyzes the structural contradictions in family life that family therapists have essentially ignored and then outlines their clinical implications.
(17) Thirty-six percent were serving obligations to the NHSC, nearly all through the NHSC's Scholarship Program.
(18) For now, we can't tell, but the Moritz-Heyman scholarships will help us find out by creating a group of graduates who will start on the career ladder with a near-clean slate.
(19) Born in Anglesey, Roberts never made it as a professional footballer in Britain – he played for Bangor City in the Northern League – but the 51-year-old has a wealth of coaching experience going back to the late 1980s, when he started working alongside the former Liverpool winger Steve Heighway in the United States after taking up a soccer scholarship at Furman University in South Carolina.
(20) In 2003 the Rhodes Trust joined in the creation of the Mandela Rhodes Foundation which provides scholarships for students studying at African universities .