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A bursary

noun

  1. the higher of two bursaries available for students entering university, polytechnic, etc Compare B bursary

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The NHS does offer a bursary but we are having to use our savings and are paying £20,000 a year now on childcare.

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The EMA started as a UK-wide benefit, but it was scrapped in England in 2011 an replaced with a bursary scheme.

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Jessie was awarded a bursary to cover the cost of the DRO, like lots of the clients who work with Christians Against Poverty.

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He said the organisation had put forward ideas such as a stained glass window, a dedicated public building to the story of victims and a bursary, but those were not taken on "for whatever reason".

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"Sticking into college is kind of hard because if I apply for a bursary, I can't afford to keep the house. I won't get my rent paid," she says.

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