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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bursary \Bur"sa*ry\, n.; pl. -ries. [LL. bursaria. See Bursar.]
The treasury of a college or monastery.
A scholarship or charitable foundation in a university, as in Scotland; a sum given to enable a student to pursue his studies. ``No woman of rank or fortune but would have a bursary in her gift.''
--Southey. [1913 Webster] ||
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"treasury," 1690s, from Medieval Latin bursaria "treasurer's room," from bursarius (see bursar).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A monetary award to university students that allows them to continue their studies. 2 (context dated English) The treasury of a religious order or public institution.
WordNet
n. the treasury of a public institution or religious order
Wikipedia
A bursary is a monetary award made by an institution to individuals or groups of people who cannot afford to pay full fees. In return for the bursary the individual is usually obligated to be employed at the institution for the same duration as the bursary. According to The Good Schools Guide, a bursary is "usually for helping out the impoverished but deserving and those fallen on hard times."
According to The Hobsons UK Boarding Schools Guide, numerous independent schools have bursary capability, namely grants from the school to help pay education fees. These are usually awarded after a "means test" of family income and are not necessarily dependent on examination performance, although some account of academic ability will be taken. Bursaries may be awarded in addition to scholarships where financial need is demonstrated and the prospective student would otherwise be unable to enter the school.
To obtain such a bursary, it is customary for parents to be asked by the school’s bursar to fill in an application form, giving details of their financial circumstances, supported by documentary evidence, including capital assets. The application will be considered by the school in accordance with its bursary policy. The award will often only remain in force until the pupil has sat the next relevant public examination. Most schools will review bursaries annually to ensure that the justification for an award remains. In Britain any award made before GCSE will not necessarily continue to the A-level stage.
There are two types of bursary awarded by institutions (such as universities). The first is a means-tested bursary which is available for all students whose parents earn under a threshold value per annum. It is often given out using a sliding scale, with people at the lowest end of the scale receiving a full bursary and the monetary award decreasing in value with proportion to the parental earnings.
The second type of bursary, also known as a " scholarship" or " prize", is one based on performance. These awards are generally given for good performance in the exams preceding university or college entrance in which the student achieves grades above the standard entry. These can be awarded by the university or, sometimes, by companies.
Usage examples of "bursary".
And in any case I already have an arrangement with Grandma and Grandpa Fleming: if anything happens to threaten my education or my bursary, I am to go and live with them.
The path I had chosen at seventeen, when I had deliberately decided against the university bursary which I had been awarded and instead I bunked from St.
He had obtained a bursary to the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, from where he had graduated with a first in politics, history, and social anthropology.
Donations, she noticed, were to be given towards a bursary at a drama school.
He then entered the Royal Scottish Academy, and in the first year took the Stuart prize for figure painting, the Chalmers painting bursary, and the Maclaine-Walters medal for composition.
On the strength of his Honours examinations, it says, he has been awarded a bursary of two hundred pounds for postgraduate study.
Identified as I had been for so many years with elementary education in South Australia, my mind was well prepared to applaud the movement in favour of the higher education of poorer children of both sexes by the foundation of bursaries and scholarships, and the opening up of the avenues of learning to women by admitting them to University degrees.
He wished to establish 6000 bursaries, to be paid by Government, and to be exclusively at his disposal, so that thus possessing the monopoly of education, he could have parcelled it out only to the children of those who were blindly devoted to him.
It was presumed, as it turned out almost rightly, that a series of scholarships and bursaries would carry him through senior school and Oxford or Cambridge.
Bursaries, research grants, third-world scholarships, a whole marine-biology, antipollution programme at Rutgers.
Having gained there one of its highest bursaries, he never spent a thought, as he donned his red gown, on the son of the poor widow who had competed with him, and who, failing, had to leave ambition behind him and take a place in a shop--where, however, he soon became able to keep, and did keep, his mother in what was to her nothing less than happy luxury.
Besides, he had in the past won two self-sufficiency awards from the British Darts Organization darts bursaries, darts scholarships, as it were, to help him in his bid to go pro.
Besides, he had in the past won two self-sufficiency awards from the British Darts Organization — darts bursaries, darts scholarships, as it were, to help him in his bid to go pro.