A sum of money given by by an authority to an individual, especially a student in higher education, to help with living costs.
our son qualified for the maximum maintenance grant
Example sentencesExamples
Up to 50,000 students will face delays of up to a month in receiving their maintenance grants at the start of the college year.
This money will go toward maintenance grants and support for orphans.
Most people have no idea that these students will not have to pay fees and will receive, for the first time for years, a substantial maintenance grant.
She welcomed the increase in maintenance grant, which was long overdue.
Even with the modest increase announced by the Minister, the level of maintenance grant is still totally inadequate to cover the basic living costs of a student.
The media will ask if Scottish Labour candidates support maintenance grants.
But more seriously the key to the government reforms is that maintenance grants will be restored to those from the poorest backgrounds.
He had been means-tested for the £2500-a-year maintenance grant when he was on the dole.
When I left university my tuition fees had been paid for me, I'd had a maintenance grant, and I'd borrowed a series of cheap student loans from the Government.
Mr Clarke will also announce the restoration of means-tested maintenance grants for poorer students.
Definition of maintenance grant in US English:
maintenance grant
noun
British
A sum of money given by by an authority to an individual, especially a student in higher education, to help with living costs.
our son qualified for the maximum maintenance grant
Example sentencesExamples
The media will ask if Scottish Labour candidates support maintenance grants.
He had been means-tested for the £2500-a-year maintenance grant when he was on the dole.
This money will go toward maintenance grants and support for orphans.
Up to 50,000 students will face delays of up to a month in receiving their maintenance grants at the start of the college year.
Most people have no idea that these students will not have to pay fees and will receive, for the first time for years, a substantial maintenance grant.
She welcomed the increase in maintenance grant, which was long overdue.
Even with the modest increase announced by the Minister, the level of maintenance grant is still totally inadequate to cover the basic living costs of a student.
Mr Clarke will also announce the restoration of means-tested maintenance grants for poorer students.
When I left university my tuition fees had been paid for me, I'd had a maintenance grant, and I'd borrowed a series of cheap student loans from the Government.
But more seriously the key to the government reforms is that maintenance grants will be restored to those from the poorest backgrounds.