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bursary

[bur-suh-ree] / ˈbɜr sə ri /




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"Our teaching bursary scheme offers a payment to career changers undertaking graduate teacher training in hard-to-fill subjects, including computing science."

From BBC • Sep. 4, 2025

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

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2025

The private school, in Blandford Forum, said it would auction the piece to fund its bursary for talented young artists.

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2025

Speaking to the Covid inquiry this week, England’s former chief nurse Dame Ruth May criticised a “catastrophic decision” , in 2015, to replace the grant or bursary paid to student midwives and nurses with loans.

From BBC • Sep. 18, 2024

She’d lost the bursary when she’d left her job at ICI, and paying for private school was becoming a burden.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah




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