Pulse warns about ‘uncertainty’ faced by Erasmus students

Pulse lamented that Maltese students who were starting their foreign experience in a few days' time “still don’t know if they’re going to benefit from the financial assistance promised by the government”.

The student organisation explained how in June, students who had planned to study abroad had been informed that they were going to receive a €300 grant per month.

Pulse has been informed that when these students asked how and when they were going to start receiving these funds, “they were not given the relevant information. Pulse believes that the Government should make it clear if the students going on Erasmus can benefit or not from the funds allocated to the Direct Exchange Programme scheme."

Students who had planned to study abroad in these exchanges “need this information to put their minds at rest and continue their experience as planned,” it warned.

This grant had been offered by the Education Ministry following the suspension of European funds the previous May.