Can a student accumulate the scholarship on social criteria with a job or other assistance?
Verified 17 September 2024 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
If you are a student, you can combine the higher education grant on social criteria with certain financial assistance and certain jobs. Here are the possibilities.
You can accumulate the grant on social criteria with the following aids:
- Scholarship awarded by a local authority
On the other hand, the scholarship on social criteria is not cumulative with the following aids:
- Scholarship from a ministry other than that of higher education
- Support for continuing training or vocational integration
- Foreigner government scholarship.
Cumulation possible: Education assistant
You can combine the scholarship on social criteria with a part-time job as an education assistant. In this case, you benefit from a scholarship rate corresponding to the minimum of the 2nd step.
Impossible to accumulate: pre-professionalization for future student teacher
If you are prospective student professor in pre-professionalization, you cannot benefit from the higher education grant on social grounds.
In principle, you can combine your scholarship on social criteria with a professional activity. To do this, you must respect the obligation to attend the courses and exams.
However, this cumulation shall be impossible if you are in any of the following situations:
- You're a public servant
- You have successfully passed a residency competition (in medicine for example)
- You are registered with France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi)
- You are on an apprenticeship, professionalization or individual training leave.
FYI
You can accumulate the scholarship on social criteria with a civic service contract.
Yes, you can combine the scholarship on social criteria with a mandatory, paid internship integrated into your training curriculum.
Cumulation is possible even if this internship is full time.
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