2013/6/16

Scholarships for students are unfair: you must remove the social criteria


The middle classes are the first victims of the threshold effect of direct state aid, linked to social criteria, which are themselves based on parental income. Families who are on the other side of the threshold are private for a few euros difference. Too low, they are insufficient to fund the total cost of educating a student which includes registration and cost of living, more and more high. Finally, poorly conditioned academic results, these scholarships are disincentives to the effort.

Whereby the change? The purse for all: universal, consistent and paid over the term of undergraduate and graduate students, it is a benefit not subject to tax, half of which is backed by a government loan, which will be refunded to zero once the young inserted in the labor market.

Incentive because conditional on academic achievement, it is combined with additional scholarships of excellence linked academic achievement and material needs. The scholarship is for a student as income. The scholarship is awarded for six years in all, but in case of failure, repetition of more than one year, for example, it is suspended.