Back to School 2016 looks particularly difficult because of increasing rents in many university towns and transport cost increases, said the student union UNEF in a study.
too high rents, transport too expensive: the cost of living continues to climb for students in September 2016, according to UNEF, forcing half of them to combine job and studies, and 12% to finance their education with loans. “For the 2016 school year, the cost of living increases 1.23% or nearly one point higher than inflation,” according to a study by the National Union of Students of France (UNEF) published Sunday. The increase “reached 9.7% since the beginning of the five-year period,” says the first student union in less than nine months of 2017. For the presidential UNEF, this new increase “will accentuate social inequality and insecurity already existing for students. ” “If the UNEF got protective measures such as freezing of mandatory tariffs (tuition, university restaurant, social security, Ed) and increase scholarships, it only allows to slow the rising cost of life for students, “he says.
The union mobilized in recent months to withdraw the labor law alongside employee organizations, calls for “an overhaul of the social protection of young and ambitious student life plan.” Such a plan goes, he says, by “a new investment in the scholarship system”, “the opening of the RSA under 25″ and investment “in indirect aid” in particular regarding housing, top expenditure item students (55%).
Because, according to UNEF, the rising cost of living for September 2016 is explained primarily by the increase in rents in 15 university cities and by an increase in transport fares. “While 19% of students are living in poverty, or that 60% of them are excluded from the trading system, it is urgent to act”, challenges the student union.
Bordeaux, bad student
“More than half of university towns saw rents soar small areas, with an increase of 1.38% in Paris and 0, 5% for the rest of France, “the study said. And six cities account for both an increase in rents and transport: Paris, Bordeaux, Lyon, Orleans, Besançon and Nice. If it is in Paris that the rents small areas is highest with an average monthly rent of 806 euros in 2016, against 795 euros in 2015 -increased charged including “non respect of rent control” – Bordeaux did figure worst student. With an increase of 4.7%, the average rent for the 41,258 students of the Gironde capital no longer living with their parents rose from 468 euros per month in 2015 to EUR 490 in 2016 followed with three Le Mans, 45% (319-330 euros), Orleans with + 2.39% (376-358 euros) and Caen with + 2.38% (378-387 euros).
Side Transport is also Bordeaux who harvest the bad points, up 7.43% of the student rate, from 210 euros per year in 2015 to 225.60 euros in 2016 city is followed by Lyon (+ 2.65%), Paris (+ 2.40%), Nice (+ 2%) and Nantes (+ 1.12%), the “young rate” remains the most expensive in the capital (341.90 euros). To finance these expenditures, 12%, or 300,000 students, resort to a loan, an average amount of 10,000 euros, according to UNEF. And nearly 50% of them have a job during the school year, 30% full-time. “Half of these jobs have no connection with studies and implement competition time spent working and he spent studying,” highlights the union, which points out that “with a student who fails to 2 license the student wage is leading the causes of this failure. “
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