{"id":151543,"date":"2023-03-07T15:49:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T14:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=151543"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:26:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:26:40","slug":"the-new-student-grant-system-is-a-half-baked-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2023\/03\/07\/the-new-student-grant-system-is-a-half-baked-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"The new student grant system is a half-baked scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"

Students, you might want to sit down for this one: when I started studying at Erasmus University Rotterdam in 1989, I was entitled to no less than seven years of student finance. Thanks to a combined student grant and supplementary grant, I was more than able to make ends meet.<\/p>\n

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I had all the time in the world \u2013 not just to study, but also for ancillary activities and work in the community, experiences that have served me well throughout my life since. And all this without building up a mountain of debt while still young. The sky truly had no limit: I could study both History and Philosophy (which entitled you to an additional year\u2019s grant in those days) as well as take courses in other cities. By comparison, the proposed new student grant system is laughable: a basic student grant of 110 euros (for students who live at home) or 275 euros (for those living away from home), supplemented by a maximum of 416 euros, on condition that you don\u2019t incur any study completion delay.<\/p>\n\n\t

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