The Minister of Higher Education, Sylvie Retailleau, announced this Wednesday an increase in the number of scholarships for students to the tune of more than 500 million additional euros, which will allow an additional 35,000 students to become scholarship holders from the start of the school year. next September.
These measures, planned since the beginning of the year, which are part of the fight against student precariousness and in a context of youth mobilization against the pension reform, will allow “increasing the amount of scholarships for all levels from 37 euros to the month (ie 370 euros / year), “said Sylvie Retailleau during a press conference, celebrating” the strongest increase in 10 years, for all students “.
1,450 euros in scholarships for the 35,000 new beneficiaries
These announcements are the result of a consultation led since October by the minister with various student unions, who demanded the creation of a universal education bonus.
For these 35,000 new beneficiaries of scholarships for students, “the annual gain will be 1,450 euros in scholarships (paid in 10 months), accompanied by the associated advantages (exemption from tuition fees and CVEC, food at 1 euro, priority for a CROUS housing) “, detailed in a press release from the ministry.
“We are making it possible for 140,000 current scholarship holders (approximately 20% of all scholarship recipients) to move to a higher scholarship level, taking more into account their family situation, which means for them an increase in the amount of their scholarship, which goes from 66 euros per month at 127 euros per month”, adds this press release from Higher Education. Thanks to these measures, the ministry hopes to “end the threshold effects”.
“At the start of the 2023 school year, no student will see their scholarship decrease by an amount greater than the increase in their parents’ income: this year we are neutralizing the effects of the thresholds, waiting to eliminate them permanently”, advances the ministry . This is a first step in the reform of the stock exchanges. A second stage should take place in September 2024. Until then, “the consultation will continue until the summer to continue building the structural changes in our scholarship system.”
Source: BFM TV
