The submission from the Human Resources Ministry would raise the number of partial scholarships available from 5,000 in the current school year to 46,330 next year.

Beneficiaries of any state funding would be required to sign a contract agreeing to work in Hungary for some years after graduation.

Under the proposal no state support would be provided to students of law or economics next year.

The cabinet would instead continue to give preference to students of technology, natural sciences, IT, agriculture, medicine and health.

Two weeks ago the cabinet rejected a report which called for more than 30,000 state-funded places at universities and colleges.

National Student Councils president Dávid Nagy said that if the proposal is true, then voters and young people have been deceived.

Source: Hungary Around the Clock

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