Higher education and research, Marine Tondelier
Student support: Raise and overhaul grants for students attached to their family's household
Direction of change: increase, compared with current law.
The lever. Means-tested grants, student housing, catering, autonomy allowance: amounts and eligible groups. Direction rule: ↑ more aid.
« Revaloriser et refonder le système des bourses étudiantes pour les jeunes rattachés fiscalement à leur famille. »1Translation by the editorsIncrease and overhaul the student grant system for young people attached to their family’s tax household.
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Increase in student grants with no amount: nothing to cost.
Current law, sources and limits of the cost schedule
Current law. Means-tested grants (bourses sur critères sociaux), not indexed. The highest tier is €6,335/year (unchanged since 2023). 662,000 grant holders in 2024-2025. Programme 231 Vie étudiante (student life): €3.2bn, 78% of it direct aid (PLF 2026). The second phase of the grants reform is suspended. Since 4 May 2026, the €1 meal has been open to all students in all university restaurants, without means testing (€50m from the State in 2026).
Horizon. full year 2032, €bn/year
Limits. The autonomy allowance would replace part of existing aid (€5.9bn to €6bn: grants, student APL, the additional half-share for tax purposes). Its net cost is therefore about €20bn to €24bn, with an estimation gap between the rapporteur (€30bn) and the minister (€25bn). The +10% option is calculated on 78% of €3.2bn. The €1 meal for all students has been in force since May 2026: a position calling for it is status quo. Its cost (€50m for eight months of 2026 according to the ministry) is part of current policies.
- Sénat, avis PLF 2026 Recherche et enseignement supérieur, 2025-11: « Avec 3,2 milliards d'euros ouverts en AE comme en CP, le programme 231 ... les aides directes, qui représentent 78 % des crédits du programme ; [seconde phase] Son coût total est estimé par le MESR entre 350 et 400 millions d'euros »
- Sénat, séance du 13 décembre 2023, PPL allocation autonomie universelle d'études, 2023-12-13: « le coût annuel de la réforme s'élèverait à environ 30 milliards d'euros par an, qu'il faut comparer aux 5,9 milliards d'euros du système existant ; ... un coût estimé à environ 25 milliards d'euros »
- Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur, communiqué du 12 février 2026 sur le repas à un euro (lu via web.archive.org, capture du 30 septembre 2026), 2026-02-12: « la mise en place du repas à un euro à partir du 1er mai prochain, pour tous les étudiants, dans tous les restaurants universitaires de France. La mise en place de cette mesure se traduira en 2026 par un investissement de l'État de 50 millions d'euros »
- Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas, Crous : repas à 1 euro pour tous les étudiants, 2026-04: « Le Crous proposera à tous les étudiants munis d'un compte Izly actif un repas à 1 euro à compter du 4 mai 2026. »
How to read these amounts. These are static costs and revenues, with no feedback effect, over a full year: nothing on growth, employment or the revenue that economic activity would gain or lose. A higher net cost does not on its own make a worse policy, nor net savings a better one: each programme rests on an economic model (demand-led stimulus, lower compulsory levies, consolidation of the public accounts…) that the cost schedule does not settle. GDP itself measures a volume of activity, not well-being or the usefulness of what is produced. Economic models and feedback effects.
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