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A grant-in-aid to a student.

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The character or qualities of a scholar.

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The activity, methods or attainments of a scholar.

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The sum of knowledge accrued by scholars; the realm of refined learning.

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The first year of high school, often accompanied by exams that needed to be passed before advancement to the higher grades.

It possesses close scholarships at Oxford and Cambridge universities.

The national government has founded several scholarships (some in art) for study abroad.

A number of entrance scholarships and leaving scholarships tenable at the universities are offered annually.

It is not compulsory, nor is it entirely gratuitous, but the fees are small and the state offers a great many scholarships, by means of which a clever child can pay for its own instruction.

He founded museums, libraries and schools, and inaugurated scholarships and a fund from which deserving scholars desirous of studying in England and America could obtain their expenses.

Both classical and modern education is provided; a large number of scholarships are maintained out of the foundation, and exhibitions from the school to the universities and other higher educational institutions.

Government scholarships enable youths to be educated for competition in the Rhodes scholarships to Oxford University.

Grants are also made for scholarships from primary to secondary schools, for training institutions for teachers and for school buildings.

Valuable close scholarships and exhibitions at Christ Church, Oxford, and Trinity College, Cambridge, are awarded annually.

His widow left a sum of Ioo,000 francs to the Institut de France, to found in his memory scholarships in political economy or law.

At the Johns Hopkins School at Baltimore twelve scholarships of $roo and $120 each are awarded annually; graduate nurses are paid $360 (£72) a year.

His elder brother Napoleon supervised his education with much care, gaining for him scholarships to the royal military schools of France, and during the time when the elder brother was a lieutenant in garrison at Auxonne Louis shared his scanty fare.

Most of the special schools also give scholarships to enable the best of their pupils to complete their studies abroad.

This important public school was opened in 1843, originally for the sons of clergymen, by whom alone certain scholarships are tenable.

Whilst making the school a strong one on the classical side, he instituted scholarships in natural science, built a laboratory, and gave importance to that side of the school work.

About 1263 he established several scholarships at Oxford, and after his death in 1269 his widow founded the college which bears the name of the family.

Under the law establishing State Normal Schools, each county is entitled to one or more appointments of scholarships, one annually for every 500 white school children listed in the last school census.

It occupies a building erected in 1873, and is largely endowed, possessing several scholarships founded by prominent citizens.

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.

There are a well-known grammarschool, founded by Edward VI., with university scholarships; a college school, a literary ` L institute, and a school of art.

As programme Tisza brought with him a number of concessions from the crown to Magyar nationalist feeling in regard to military matters, particularly in regard to military badges, penal procedure, the transfer of officers of Hungarian origin from Austrian to Hungarian regiments, the establishment of military scholarships for Magyar youths and the introduction of the two years' service system.

In the award of scholarships, &c., it should be definitely decided whether the scholarship is to be awarded (I) for attainment, in which case the examination-test pure and simple may suffice, or (2) for promise, in which case personal information and a curriculum vitae are necessary.

It must again be decided whether the financial circumstances of candidates are to be taken into account; are scholarships intended as prizes, or as a means of enabling poor students to obtain a university education ?

The whole subject of entrance scholarships at English schools and universities, and especially their tendency to produce premature specialization, has recently been much discussed.

The free grammar school, founded by Edward VI., has two scholarships at Cambridge, and six exhibitions to each university, and occupies modern buildings.

The multiplication of art periodicals, lectures, books, photographs, meetings of societies and gilds, museums, schools of arts and crafts, polytechnics, scholarships, facilities for travel, exhibitions, even those of the Royal Academy, to which objects of applied art are now admitted, not only encourages many persons to become workers and designers in the applied arts, but exposes everything to the plagiarist, who travesties the freshest idea before it has well left the hands of its originator.

All alike receive some measure of pecuniary support, which is justified by the guarantee of regular inspection; and a series of scholarships at once stimulates efficiency and opens a path to the university for children of the poor.

In addition a number of technical scholarships of X150 each have been founded tenable in Europe or America.

There are 150 free-tuition state scholarships (one for each of the state assembly districts), and, in addition, there are 36 undergraduate university scholarships (annual value, $200) tenable for two years, and 23 fellowships and 17 graduate scholarships (annual value, $300-600 each).

But primary instruction has been greatly improved; there is a school of arts and trades at the capital, in which there are endowed scholarships for pupils from different provinces; a normal school has been established to train teachers for the Indians; high schools and training schools have been opened; and the government pays the expenses of several students in Europe.

In order to accomplish the first of these two preliminaries, the department established a Faculty of Agriculture at the Royal College of Science in Dublin, and offered a considerable number of scholarships the competition for which becomes increasingly keen.

The university of New Zealand is an examining body, and grants honours, degrees and scholarships.

In some cases wealthy students have been known to return the emoluments of scholarships.

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Two of our students have been offered scholarships to attend St Paul's Girls ' School for their secondary education.

During her youth, Stone wrote poetry, played sports, and after high school graduation was offered college basketball scholarships.

The British Chamber of Commerce in Germany offers scholarships for British students studying in Germany.

Sports scholarships program The University operates an athletic scholarship and golf bursary program for talented athletes studying at the institution.

Faculty Offices are also a source of information about postgraduate scholarships.

Certain institutions can offer full or partial tuition scholarships to students they want regardless of nationality.

There are no longer entrance scholarships or Exhibitions at Oxford.

The board shall have power to appoint a subcommittee of its members to act for it in connection with these scholarships.

In 1903 it was decided to bestow degrees on women, and in 1904 to establish women's scholarships.

Himself a good scholar, he did not send his son to any school, but educated him and his brother at home so well that both obtained scholarships at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

The ORSAS Awards provide Scholarships for partial remission of tuition fees for overseas research students.

All UK, EU or International students can apply for Scholarships administered by the University - please follow the instructions for the different awards.

Choral Scholarships are tenable in conjunction with the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court Palace.

No. The scholarships scheme applies only to students who will be paying the new variable or flexible fees from 2007/08.

There are no longer Entrance Scholarships or Exhibitions at Oxford.

Scholarships will be tenable for the duration of the staff members ' period of employment by the University.