Sentence examples for an endowment system from inspiring English sources

It has an endowment system which is very generous and ensures that the poorest students can have their fees paid for in their entirety.

Nicola Sturgeon, the first minister and SNP leader, again hailed her party's flagship policy of introducing free university tuition fees – it scrapped Scotland's former graduate endowment system for repaying tuition costs in 2008 – at the SNP's annual conference earlier this month.

The endowment system itself was later abolished so that all students domiciled and studying at Scottish universities did not have to pay any fees towards their tuition costs.

It is only appropriate that we create an endowment for the Park System that honors the park service's mission to protect them in perpetuity instead of having to depend on an anemic annual budget.

To replicate the program in New York City, to cover the college tuition of all 52,000 students who graduate from the nation's largest school system every year, an endowment of something like $20 billion would be needed, according to Keith Luke, at the Connecticut-based Commonfund, which manages $25 billion in assets for nonprofit institutions.

Texas A&M has an endowment valued at more than $5 billion (system-wide), which ranks fourth among U.S. public universities and 10th overall.

The library, run by a nonprofit foundation, has an endowment of about $13 million, modest by the standards of the system.

She suggested that the Graduate Endowment, a system abolished by the SNP Government, could be reinstated if Labour were re-elected at the next Scottish parliamentary election.

"If you're talking about an endowment of $25 billion," an officer at another philanthropic organization involved in educational programs points out, "that's more than the budget for the whole public-school system".

A third of that went into an endowment for upkeep; a good part of the rest was used to pay for the alternative energy systems.

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