The word 'scholarships' is correct and usable in written English
You can use the word 'scholarships' when referring to a type of financial assistance for college students. Example sentence: My parents are helping me apply for various scholarships to help pay for my college tuition.
Their talk was of rival software packages and camera types, and the scholarships to western universities they always just seemed to miss.
The NUS says more of the NSP should be used to fund bursaries and scholarships, which are set to fall by £21.8m over the next three years.
The stranger offering scholarships was a woman named Godiya, a slim, quietly-spoken 27-year-old whose sister had been among the kidnapped schoolgirls.
And we have another goal – of increasing private gifts raised to support need-based scholarships to help make Wisconsin's flagship university accessible to academically qualified students, regardless of their family income.
The prime minister, Tony Abbott, has said a decision by the Australian Catholic University to create two scholarships named after executed drug smugglers Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran was "open to profound questions".
To add to Clegg's woes, a universities thinktank has challenged claims by ministers that proposed scholarships for the poorest students will boost social mobility.
Announcing the scholarships, the university's vice-chancellor, Prof Greg Craven, said in a statement "in a small but symbolic way, the writing by Indonesian students on the sanctity of life would be an ongoing contribution toward the eventual abolition of the death penalty in Indonesia".
The university said the scholarships, for Indonesian students to study in Australia, would provide full tuition fees over four years and would be awarded on the basis of an essay on the topic of "the sanctity of human life".
"The scholarships would be a fitting tribute to the reformation, courage and dignity of the two men," he said.
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.
The Whitehouse Institute's website says the school "does not currently offer scholarships to gain a place into the Bachelor of Design".
