But others will continue to support current students, through bursary schemes to help them with their studies.
He responded by drawing attention to a "picture competition" and an Olympics digital bursary scheme he launched in his constituency as evidence of experience with cultural policy.
Fortunately, she got a bursary for £10,000 through her bank, HSBC, which she won as part of a competition for student current account holders.
He won a bursary to a good school, then earned two masters' degrees.
An official revealed in July that more than a quarter of bursary applications from impoverished students are turned down.
To encourage this shift, they issued a raft of incentives for forest conservation, such as tax breaks for non-timber forest products like rubber, palm hearts and nuts.Their most ambitious tree-hugging scheme, the Bolsa Floresta, or forest bursary, is a cash transfer of around $6,500 a month for communities and $30 for families for forest-dwellers who swear not to cut trees.
Trixie Pearson's family went on poor relief rather than pull her out of Oxford during the Depression, and she later realised that the "bursary" her college gave her in fact came straight out of her tutors' pockets.
And in the specific case of Ms Spence, most neutral observers awarded a points victory to the university.But some of the chancellor's comments obviously hit home: this week Oxford unveiled the country's first university bursary scheme.
To qualify for a bursary, students must have a family income below £20,000.Oxford's bursaries will initially be funded by £1m from an anonymous donor.
Both winners will receive a bursary of £5,000 to cover accommodation and travel.This fellowship was established in memory of Nico Colchester, who died in 1996 at the age of 49, after an outstanding career at the Financial Times, The Economist and the Economist Intelligence Unit.
The son of a blacksmith, Larousse obtained a bursary to study at Versailles and then returned to Toucy as a schoolmaster.
