One of her last acts was to set up a small charity, Phoenix Fund for Zimbabwe, which awards small bursaries to enable Zimbabwean refugees in the UK to study and gain skills that will help them re-establish themselves in their country when the time comes to go home.
The National Union of Students said the decision "effectively cancelled the National Scholarship Programme", which it said would have provided "small bursaries for the poorest undergraduates in higher education".
With so much being spent on bursaries and scholarships – up to 51% of universities' additional fee money in 2015 – it begs the question what's better for student participation: smaller fees, with smaller bursaries, or big fees and big bursaries?
By sending my children to a private day school (with a small staff bursary) instead of to our local comprehensive, which was recently graded as inadequate by Ofsted, I know I'm doing something to help their future but I'm in a privileged position and yes, it does make me sad.
Anne Langston received a small travel bursary in 2003 from The Alliance for Better Bone Health, an alliance between Proctor & Gamble, and Sanofi Aventis, which are pharmaceutical companies who manufacture drugs used in the treatment of Paget's disease.
A small number of bursary and writing grant projects (n = 6) took up to 29 months to be completed.
It calls for outreach programmes in disadvantaged areas to inspire students into higher education, rather than "tokenistic efforts" such as offering small numbers of bursaries, which amounts to cherry-picking the best students at the expense of others.
A small number of graduate student bursaries will be available for students traveling long distances to attend the conference.
Since the government introduced tuition fees and phased out maintenance grants there has been growing anxiety that the prospect of student debt is deterring poorer pupils from applying to universities.Oxford's bursaries are too small to make much of a difference at a time when even a frugal student can now run up debts of £12,000 over three years.
