Sentence examples for as bursaries from inspiring English sources

This is because they are offering poorer students financial support such as bursaries rather than waiving fees.

To make access real, financial aid (and please let's start using that term, not paternalistic English circumlocutions such as bursaries), is critical.

The University of East Anglia provides scholarships worth up to £1,500 on merit as well as bursaries – of up to £4,500 – available as a fee waiver, halls of residence discount, or in cash.

This is partly because the government has decided to end the National Scholarship Programme after 2014-15, meaning universities will no longer be obliged to offer financial support such as bursaries or fee waivers.

As well as bursaries of up to £20,000 for graduates with a relevant first-class degree (£15,000 for a 2 1 and £12,000 for a 2 2), eligible applicants receive one-to-one advice on applying, short placements to get a taste of teaching, free subject refresher courses and careers guidance from current teachers.

That is why, since 2006, universities that wish to charge higher fees have agreed 'fair access' agreements with the Office for Fair Access setting out how they will work to attract disadvantaged students, including outreach activities and financial support such as bursaries".

Means-tested bursaries, as well as awards for care leavers and asylum seekers are also available.

All the while there are regular battles with politicians over policy, such as scrapping bursaries for student nurses.

The government will probably introduce means-tested grants, dressed up as "Opportunity Bursaries" to save some face.The other issue is whether to introduce a graduate tax.

But the scheme, described as 16-199 burepresentsrepresents 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.

Nearly all of the Flinders PHCRED funding holders (94%) agreed they would recommend a capacity building initiative, such as the bursaries and writing grants, to other novice researchers.