School bursaries
Discussion
Yes!
Child moving from GCSE year in current place to Lower Sixth in private school
Timeframe was sat entrance exam in January and was offered academic discount with results and then applied for further scholarships in music and specific subject which required further attendance and interview. Kid is very talented with music and plays in an adult orchestra plus other instruments to high standard for fun but decided the sample music scholarship paper which was enclosed with the letter of invitation was utterly w
ky and a sign that they should stay where they were.Which I was very happy with
Cheers
Bursary =/= scholarship
A scholarship includes a discount on fees (often fairly nominal) because of a particular ability in an area. It is as much for the prestige of being a scholar as for the financial benefit. My youngest has an academic scholarship at his prep school which I think includes 5% off the fees.
A bursary is a much larger fee subsidy (potentially 100%) to enable a child to attend whose parents would not otherwise be able to afford the fees.
If you are trying to get a bursary, be prepared to give huge amounts of information (with evidence) on your financial situation.
A scholarship includes a discount on fees (often fairly nominal) because of a particular ability in an area. It is as much for the prestige of being a scholar as for the financial benefit. My youngest has an academic scholarship at his prep school which I think includes 5% off the fees.
A bursary is a much larger fee subsidy (potentially 100%) to enable a child to attend whose parents would not otherwise be able to afford the fees.
If you are trying to get a bursary, be prepared to give huge amounts of information (with evidence) on your financial situation.
My niece won a free scholarship to an independent girls school based on her ability (£10k pa roughly!) and is just taking her A levels after achieving 9 A star GCSE. She's a provisional offer at Edinburgh for history/politics based on predicted grades so fingers crossed!
her younger sister managed to obtain a small bursary at the same school afterward based on sister already there plus highly detailed financial probing into family affairs and her grandfather funded the rest! Very proud of both of them for their effort and hard work having been given such a good opportunity. I can fully see why people do so if they can afford it, so difficult to win either option though.
her younger sister managed to obtain a small bursary at the same school afterward based on sister already there plus highly detailed financial probing into family affairs and her grandfather funded the rest! Very proud of both of them for their effort and hard work having been given such a good opportunity. I can fully see why people do so if they can afford it, so difficult to win either option though.
Zigster said:
If you are trying to get a bursary, be prepared to give huge amounts of information (with evidence) on your financial situation.
This. The handling company will want a full run down of all your financial affairs - pensions, mortgages, savings, salary, etc., in order to apply the means testing. The interesting thing from my experience (as a governor although not any more so I may be out of date) is there is a fair bit of flex. The school I was involved with had high fees - they are approx £24k a year now. Therefore to qualify for a bursary which was generally either 50% or %100% of the fees there wasn’t a set threshold just a view that the education without the bursary was “unaffordable”. There was a strong preference for full bursaries but we had parents with joint incomes around £75k who achieved a full bursary - figures would be around six years old. We outsourced the vetting to a third party company who were indeed very thorough. That said I can only recall us ever turning down one candidate as a result of material non-disclosure.
pidsy said:
As above.
A full 100% Bursary is very very in depth.
I should hope so. My kids are in state education and the amount of lying and cheating that goes on there is astounding, as our local schools are excellent. I dread to think what happens when tens of thousands of pounds are on the line. One of my son's friends has just won a bursary he fully deserves, a little genius with parents unable to afford £13,000 per term, we're made up for him.A full 100% Bursary is very very in depth.
ladderino said:
Zigster said:
If you are trying to get a bursary, be prepared to give huge amounts of information (with evidence) on your financial situation.
This. The handling company will want a full run down of all your financial affairs - pensions, mortgages, savings, salary, etc., in order to apply the means testing. We've been told the handling company (Bursary Administration Ltd) are really intrusive and want to know all your financial ins and outs. The School have said be really honest and that stressed that we should be realistic about what we can afford. We already pay for our Daughters' Primary School education, so that'll be a starting point. We know that the School won't give a 100% Bursary, although some people have tried to gain one.
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