0 an amount of money given to a person by an organization, such as a university, to pay for them to study
1 the financial office of a college, school, or university:
2 a sum of money given to a person by an organization, such as a university, to pay for them to study:
He was a peasant lad, a penniless bursary student at Edinburgh University.
There he was considered an excellent Latin scholar, and gained high honour by a contest with a candidate twice as old as himself, by which he obtained a bursary.
Each university will decide to whom to give bursaries and how much to give.
The bursaries were designed to assist researchers undertaking small, largely unfunded projects.
Specific rules for suspending a bursary were adopted by each particular institute or school.
The strength of bursaries is also their greatest potential weakness.
The bursaries were designed to help researchers undertaking small projects that were largely unfunded.
