{"id":65330,"date":"2022-10-19T16:40:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T20:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?p=65330"},"modified":"2022-10-19T16:40:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T20:40:16","slug":"student-grants-how-to-correct-the-inequalities-of-the-french-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/student-grants-how-to-correct-the-inequalities-of-the-french-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Student grants: how to correct the inequalities of the French system?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Money cost saving for goal and success in school, education concept : US dollar bills \/ cash in burlap bags, a black graduation cap or hat, a certificate \/ diploma and a book on basic balance scale.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Money cost saving for goal and success in school, education concept : US dollar bills \/ cash in burlap bags, a black graduation cap or hat, a certificate \/ diploma and a book on basic balance scale.<\/p><\/div>\n

Exceptionally, perhaps unprecedented, the\u00a0number of scholarship students<\/a>\u00a0fell by 3.9% in French higher education in 2021-2022.\u00a0Sign, again that in France, this system responsible for allowing access to higher education for the working classes is at the end of its rope, struggling to fill the inequalities it is supposed to correct?<\/p>\n

It should be noted that the scholarships concern 650,000 people, ie 4 out of 10 young people enrolled in public establishments (and nearly 70,000 in the private sector, which is growing rapidly) for a total of 2.4 billion euros.\u00a0Scholarship holders are mainly concentrated in less prestigious sectors, less dynamic territories and establishments left behind in the race for international rankings of \u201cexcellence\u201d.\u00a0Let us recall, in comparison, that with the\u00a0<\/span>additional tax half<\/span><\/a>\u00a0granted to parents of children enrolled in higher education, very well-off people also benefit from financial aid for studies:\u00a0<\/span>with this system<\/span><\/a>\u00a0, the wealthiest families receive 1.7 billion euros each year.<\/span><\/p>\n

We can therefore wonder about the truly redistributive nature of this system, especially since it struggles to sufficiently help the poorest: even at the highest level (which concerns young people who cannot count on any support financial institution), the scholarship remains below \u20ac600 per month, very far from the poverty line (\u20ac1063), even after the\u00a0<\/span>4% revaluation<\/span><\/a>\u00a0decided for the start of the 2022 school year and supposed to compensate for inflation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Scholarship rate<\/strong><\/h4>\n

More pernicious, the scholarship system has become a tool of political communication since 2007 and the\u00a0<\/span>mandate of Val\u00e9rie P\u00e9cresse<\/span><\/a>\u00a0under Nicolas Sarkozy: rather than focusing on the access of children from the working classes to prestigious establishments, it is the rate of scholarship holders which has become the central indicator of social openness.\u00a0<\/span>The number of scholarship holders has indeed increased<\/span><\/a>\u00a0rapidly during this five-year period, rising from 495,000 to 647,000, an increase of more than 31%.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is that a new level, level 0, had been added, giving the right to a scholarship of\u2026 0 euros but allowing to be exempted from\u00a0<\/span>university registration fees<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 which ultimately only represents support from 10 to 20\u20ac per month, registration for a bachelor’s degree being set at 170 euros per month, for a master’s at 243 euros per month.<\/span><\/p>\n

When it was introduced in 2007, level 0 brought together 9% of scholarship holders, it rose to 21% in 2011. To get out of this too obvious make-up of figures, level 0 disappeared during the Hollande mandate, absorbed into the higher level, but not really level 1 (\u20ac180 per month) rather a half level introduced just before,\u00a0<\/span>level 0bis<\/span><\/a>\u00a0at \u20ac100 per month: we understand the urgency of clarifying the system!\u00a0This minimum level includes\u00a0<\/span>almost a third of scholarship holders<\/span><\/a>\u00a0.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition, with the charging point mechanism allowing the number of brothers and sisters to be taken into account as well as the distance between the parents’ domicile and the establishment of registration, the scholarships are also awarded to children from the middle classes.\u00a0One can thus be a scholarship holder with parents declaring up to \u20ac95,000 annually.<\/span><\/p>\n

Discussions are open at the Ministry of Higher Education to develop the scholarship system.\u00a0This is at least what was announced at the end of September during the\u00a0<\/span>back-to-school press conference of<\/span><\/a>\u00a0the Ministry of Higher Education.\u00a0But no envelope is planned for 2023,\u00a0<\/span>according to the blue budget<\/span><\/a>\u00a0, the document which specifies public funding, which casts doubt on the will to succeed soon, despite the glaring urgency of\u00a0<\/span>student precariousness<\/span><\/a>\u00a0, particularly visible during the Covid with the queues for food aid, unfortunately still very real.<\/span><\/p>\n

Two funding models<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In the perspective of the upcoming debate, the nature of the support that will be granted to students will say a lot about the conception that the government has of education and the path in which our higher education system will go.\u00a0In fact, the prospects offered to us refer to two different conceptions of its financing:<\/span><\/p>\n