Question 16254 — French people abroad

Summary

Mr. Meyer Habib alerts the Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs to the numerous requests submitted to him regarding school scholarships in the network of the Agency for French Education Abroad. In principle, school scholarships are awarded to French children residing with their family abroad under means-tested conditions. The latter must be compatible with an allocation scale set according to of the economic and social situation of each country. However, given the continued increase in tuition fees combined with the stagnation of scholarship credits and the 2012 reform of the award criteria, a growing number of low-income families find themselves excluded from the French education system due to a lack of sufficient support for their needs by the consular councils for school scholarships. It is an attack on principle of equality before the public education service and this undermines the cultural influence of France. On November 7, 2017, the Minister committed that no French family residing abroad and meeting the criteria for school scholarships would be excluded from their benefit due to lack of credits. In this context, it signals the urgency of a reform of the criteria for awarding educational scholarships abroad taking better account of the real situation of families and asking about current projects in this direction.

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