The new academic year is fast approaching and as each year the student unions are the accounts. Result: students should see the invoice to rise in 2016-2017. “For the 2016 school year, the cost of living increases 1.23%, almost one point higher than inflation,” reports the National Union of Students of France (UNEF) in its annual survey cost of student life published Sunday. The student union also said that the cost of student life increased 9.7% over the five year term.
And it is the Parisian students who will need more hands in pocket, precise Unef Tuesday in its ranking of cities by cost of student life. In the capital, housing, transport and running costs represent on average 1,156 euros per month, against 1,035 and 1,024 euros for Créteil, Nanterre, 906 euros for Nice, Lyon and 856 to 831 for Bordeaux. At the other end of the ranking, Limoges is illustrated as the most affordable city for students with 655 euros to pay on average per month.
The General Federation of Students Associations (Fage), which publishes this Tuesday its own indicator on the cost of the student returned notes in turn an increase of 1.01% for the cost of school in 2016 with an average of 2359.85 euros to pay. This amount takes into account the costs of everyday life that remain the same each month during the academic year and the specific costs for the academic year, including the registration fee.
On costs of daily living, housing, transport, food …, Fage an increase of 1.55% to 1125.87 euros on average. The specific costs reach back, they, 1233.98 euros on average (+ 0.52%) also indicates that the federation reports that the various mandatory fees reentry registration were frozen for September, 2016.
rents increased
How to explain the increase in the cost of living for students? The UNEF advanced two main factors: “the increase in rents and transport in a number of university towns.” In its annual survey, the student union said that housing is “on average 55% of the budget” students. Now, “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 says. If Paris is the city where students pay the highest average rent, Bordeaux is illustrated by a sharp rise this: + 4.70%. Le Mans, Orleans, Caen and Besançon also recorded increases above 2%.
Paris is also the most expensive city in terms of transport for students, with a young 341.90 euros annual fee but it is Bordeaux who again recorded the highest increase: + 7.43% to 225.60 euros. In Lyon, Nice and Paris, the price of transportation for students is also increasing by more than 2%.
If the Fage as it points up 1.41% of rental income at the national level, it finds against by a decrease of 1.33% of transport costs. Fage notes that the gap between the cost of back and current fees for French students and students from other regions back in 2016 “thanks to the supervision of experienced rents in Paris and lower spreads of consumer prices between the Ile-de-France and other regions. “
” the increase in the cost of living sinks a little more each returned students in poverty, “warns Unef while Fage evokes a “context of creeping casualization”. Both unions agreed on one fact: many students are forced to pay salaries. They would be 50% according to UNEF
METHODOLOGY. The UNEF calculates the increased cost of student life based on four profiles of students’ chosen for their representativeness. ” The union calculates for each profile the “co-pay”, that is to say the difference between the expenditure items and the aid received. It then calculates the “global burden remains” according to the representation of the four profiles and compared to the previous year.
La Fage calculates the cost of school for a student “primo-entering the license to the university, no double registration, no stock and décohabitant (no longer living in the family home).” It takes into account the costs of everyday life and specific fees for academic year.
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