Poorer Higher Education students will have extra support of 1045 euros for each year of course

In addition to the scholarship, secondary school students in category A will be entitled to an “incentive scholarship” for each year and throughout the course, and not just in the freshman year as had been announced. There are other news.

The poorest students who reach Higher Education will have, in addition to the scholarship, extra support from 1,045 euros per year throughout the degree, revealed the Minister of Education this Tuesday.

Secondary education students benefiting from the level A family allowance, that is, those from families with lower incomes, will be entitled to annual support of 1,045 euros, Minister Fernando Alexandre told journalists, at the end of the ceremony to present the new model of social action for higher education, which took place this Tuesday at the Thalia Theater, in Lisbon.

This is one of the changes to the proposal at the beginning of the month to rectors, presidents of polytechnics and students, which provided for the automatic granting of support to the poorest students, but only in the 1st year of the course.

In addition to the support, students can still apply for the usual scholarship, which will vary depending on household income and the costs of studying in each municipality.

The calculation now takes into account the amount that each family can spend to finance the young person’s academic life and the real cost of living. And there will also be differences between displaced and non-displaced students.

In this context, “there will be a unique bagwhich takes into account the student’s available income to study and the cost for the student to study, which will depend on the place where he studies”, in place of the current differentiation between the scholarship and accommodation supplements.

“We will therefore have a significant differentiation between students who are residents of the area where they study and those who are displaced. This is the big change and it is a system tidying which will make it much fairer, and also much more transparent, much easier for students to understand”, points out Fernando Alexandre.