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A monetary award to university students that allows them to continue their studies.
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The treasury of a religious order or public institution.
Examples of bursaries in a Sentence
Geomys bursaries, the "red pocket-gopher" of North America, with deeply grooved incisors, inhabits the plains of the Mississippi, living in burrows like the mole.
Primary education is gratuitous and obligatory, and superior education is gratuitous or supported by bursaries.
Schaw's Hospital Trust, at one time intended for the education and maintenance of the children of poor parents, has been modified, and the bequest is used to provide free education and bursaries, while the building has been leased by the trustees of Miss Mary Murray, who bequeathed £20,000 (afterwards increased to 30,000) for the training of poor children as domestic servants.
The fees vary from £5 to £8 a year, but, owing to the absence of scholarships and bursaries, are sometimes remitted, as in the case of the higherburgher schools.
The fees are the same as those of the universities, and as at the universities there are bursaries.
He left Craigenputtock, which had become his own property, to found bursaries at the university of Edinburgh.
He was sent to the old and famous school at Bessastad and (when it removed thither) at Reykjavik; and in 1849, already a fair scholar, he came to Copenhagen University as a bursaries in the Regense College.
Bursaries From 2006, all eligible full-time undergraduate Cumbria Institute of the Arts students will be awarded a non-repayable bursary.
A bursaries program is intended to reduce financial disincentive to able students.
Welfare Committee distribute the bursaries, which rarely exceed £ 50.
The ESRC endorses and sponsors the symposium and has made 50 bursaries available for full-time PhD students attending the event.