Bursaries

Plural of Bursary.

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A word often used interchangably with "Scholarship".

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Increasingly used in the UK to indicate a place offered at a fee-charging educational establishment, where the fees are greatly reduced or waived for a student of ability who could not afford the fees.

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This is usually scrupulously means-tested.

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