Bursaries are means-tested and designed to offer financial assistance in exceptional circumstances to lower income households to either start at a school or remain at school if the family’s circumstances change. A bursary is an amount of money granted to make up the shortfall between what the family can afford and what the fees actually are.
The aim of providing a bursary are:
- To widen pupil access to the School and to ensure that an education is provided to children from a broad spectrum of society
- Enable children with cases of clear social need to achieve their full potential in a caring and supportive environment. Such cases may or may not be supported by a Scholarship
- Enable academically very able children to attend the College and achieve their full potential, by offering financial assistance in addition to Scholarship awards
- Enable other gifted and talented children to attend the College, with or without associated Scholarship awards
- Bursaries may be made available to the parents or guardians of children entering the School from Year 3 onwards and are awarded at the discretion of the College Awards Group (CAG).
The Head of College and School Bursar are responsible for the management and coordination of the award process.
The College follows a 4-step process when considering a Bursary award as follows:
