Your supposition is perfectly correct.

It will be interesting to see what is available for 2007.

Terry Brady



At 11:29 10/07/2006 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi
>
>I have translated some of this via 
>babelfish  (http://www.babelfish.altavista.com/tr) and you could also do 
>the rest to get a full translation. Hope this helps
>
>Faye Langston
>Disabilities Co-ordinator
>Coventry University
>
>Translated text as follows:
>
>.....The purses of higher education on social criteria are allotted to the 
>students who meet the following conditions: - to be old of less than 26 
>years to October 1 of the year of higher training, in the case of a first 
>request for purse of higher education on social criteria. As from 26 
>years, the students should not stop their studies to continue to profit 
>from a purse. The age limit can be moved back according to the duration of 
>voluntariate in the armies or civil voluntariate as envisaged with the 
>L.121-1 articles and L.122-3 of the code of the national service. For the 
>coeds, the age limit is moved back one year per high child. No age limit 
>is opposable to the students reached of a handicap recognized by the 
>institutional commission in charge of the recognition of the handicap; - 
>to be titular French baccalaureat or of a title or diploma admitted in 
>exemption or equivalence for the inscription in first year of higher 
>studies. This condition is not required for the attribution of a purse at 
>the time of the passage in second year of higher studies. It could be held 
>account of the particular methods of inscription in certain educational 
>establishments higher. The candidates with the attribution of a purse of 
>higher education on social criteria to prepare the contests with the 
>teaching function must have, at 1 January preceding the tests by the 
>contest, the diploma or titrates required; - to be registered in initial 
>formation, France or in a Member State of the Council of Europe, a public 
>educational establishment or a formation entitled to receive 
>stock-brokers, and to follow higher studies full-time concerning ministry 
>in charge of national education or higher education (cf appendices 1,2 and 
>3); - to be of French nationality or to have the nationality of a Member 
>State of the European Union or of another State left to the European 
>economic Area. In accordance with the provisions of articles 39 and 40 of 
>the Treaty of Rome and articles 7 and 12 of the European payment n° 
>1612/68 of 15 October 1968 relative to freedom of movement for the 
>Community workers, the above mentioned European students, must fill one of 
>the conditions hereafter: a) to attest of an employment in France, 
>full-time or part-time during the year under review. The activity must 
>real and effective and be carried on in the capacity of paid or non 
>wage-earning person; b) to attest that the father, the mother or the legal 
>guardian perceived incomes in France during the year under review;
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff. 
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Honey Lucas
>Sent: 10 July 2006 11:10
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: funding for French students
>
>Dear all
>
>I have been trying to discover whether French students have any funding
>which they could bring with them to studies in the UK, and which could
>help to fund disability related support.
>
>Colleagues and I have come across this page, which is part of the French
>Ministry for Education website:
>http://www.education.gouv.fr/bo/2004/30/MENS0401499C.htm
>
>We *think* this refers to funding which French citizens may get, if they
>meet certain 'social criteria', and disability appears to be one of
>these criteria.  The page was found from this portal, which may also
>help:  http://www.sup.adc.education.fr/handi-U/
>
>If any French speakers out there could clarify whether this is what it
>appears to be, that would be very helpful!
>
>best wishes
>Honey Lucas, Oxford Brookes.
>
>--
>Honey Lucas
>Disabled Students' Adviser
>
>Student Services
>Oxford Brookes University
>Headington Campus
>Headington Hill
>Oxford OX3 0BP
>
>Tel: 01865 484689
>Fax: 01865 484656
>
>Please visit our website for information
>about the Student Disability Service:
>www.brookes.ac.uk/student/services/disability/