These scholarships will be replaced by a different type of aid, named "rector's scholarships."
The changes mean some 50,000 fewer students will receive financial aid this October than at the start of the current academic year.
Last year, out of 1.9 million registered post-secondary students, nearly 240,000 relied on academic scholarships, ranging from zł.50 to zł.650 per month.
"Nobody informs us of any changes. Instead, they come as surprises," said Justyna Więsek, a student at the University of Warsaw.
The changes will force schools to curb spending on academic scholarship programs from 50 percent of their total scholarship expenditures (with the other half going to social programs) to 40 percent.
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Are the politicians trying to braindrain their own people?
I hope this is not true since that would really fock up many students economi and maybe even forces them to quit school and search for a job.