(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students from families with incomes up to £25,000, falling to about £4,500 just above it and then tapering off to be withdrawn by the time family income reaches £43,000.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.
Treasury
Definition:
(n.) A place or building in which stores of wealth are deposited; especially, a place where public revenues are deposited and kept, and where money is disbursed to defray the expenses of government; hence, also, the place of deposit and disbursement of any collected funds.
(n.) That department of a government which has charge of the finances.
(n.) A repository of abundance; a storehouse.
(n.) Hence, a book or work containing much valuable knowledge, wisdom, wit, or the like; a thesaurus; as, " Maunder's Treasury of Botany."
(n.) A treasure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Obiang, blaming foreigners for bringing corruption to his country, told people he needed to run the national treasury to prevent others falling into temptation.
(2) They also questioned why George Osborne and the Treasury failed to realise there was a potential issue earlier in the calculation process – pointing to recent upwards revisions of post-1995 gross national income by the UK’s own statistics watchdog.
(3) The Treasury said: "Britain has been at the forefront of global reforms to make banking more responsible, including big reductions in upfront cash bonuses and linking rewards to long-term success.
(4) There must also be strict rules in place to reduce the risks they take with shareholders' funds.Yet the huge cost of increasing capital and liquidity is forgotten when the Treasury urges them to increase lending to small and medium businesses.
(5) The Treasury has also earmarked £3bn in "underspends" by departments that have cut more rapidly than planned, to be put to use.
(6) He served as financial secretary to the Treasury between 1994 and 1995, then as transport secretary for two years.
(7) However, a spokesperson for the Department for Communities and Local Government denied any reports of a rift with the Treasury.
(8) Zoopla, the property website, has warned that Brexit would reverse the gains in house prices made over the past five years, citing Treasury research.
(9) Nurses, police and other public sector workers should not necessarily expect a 1% pay rise, the chief secretary to the Treasury has said.
(10) The prime minister said that while he was prepared to organise the extraordinary Treasury briefing, he was not prepared to release the government’s independent advice for the public or parliament to justify the rise.
(11) Sir James Crosby, the chief executive until 2006, was forced to resign as deputy chairman of the Financial Services Authority after the Treasury select committee produced allegations by a whistleblower that the bank was "going too fast".
(12) Treasury secretary Tim Geithner called her an "exceptional talent" whose broad experience would "provide invaluable leadership for this indispensable institution at a critical time for the global economy".
(13) As part of the plan, the treasury and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation will guarantee against the "possibility of unusually large losses" on up to $306bn of risky loans and securities backed by commercial and residential mortgages.
(14) Freedom of information documents obtained as part of the investigation show that the recently departed leader of the City corporation, Stuart Fraser, had contact with the chancellor, George Osborne, and other senior Treasury ministers and officials 22 times in the 14 months up to March this year.
(15) Inflation is down by more than a half from its peak," the Treasury said in a statement.
(16) Mark Hellowell, lecturer in global health policy at Edinburgh University and an adviser to the Treasury select committee inquiry into PFIs, said: "There are some really significant risks to affordability here."
(17) Treasury sources said concerns over the state of the box were justified.
(18) The governor told business leaders in Edinburgh that Westminster would need to agree that the UK Treasury would help to bail out Scotland in any future financial crisis and act as a guarantor for Scotland's banks.
(19) Any further sales will be subject to market conditions and ensuring value for money,” the Treasury said.
(20) The Treasury was adamant last night that this would not be the impact at an industry level and produced figures that showed, for instance, in 2014-15, the corporation tax costs being £0.4bn, compared with a bank levy yield of £2.4bn.