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Students in Kassel last year: Basis for the integration of Ukrainian students into the German university system
Photo: Uwe Zucchi / picture alliance / dpa
From June, it should also be possible for refugees from the Ukraine to receive training support through the Bafög.
The Federal Ministry of Education and Research made this clear on Wednesday.
The background to the decision is a planned change in the law, according to which refugees from Ukraine will be entitled to basic security instead of support under the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act from June.
"Refugees from the Ukraine thus have good social security if they want to start or continue their studies or school-based vocational training with us," said the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
The Deutsches Studentenwerk (DSW) welcomed the federal government's planned opening of student loans as an "enormously important step and as a basis" for the integration of these students into the German university system.
DSW General Secretary Matthias Anbuhl explained that Ukrainians with the appropriate language level and the professional requirements would have “real study financing available that the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act, which will be in force until the end of May, cannot offer.
We very much welcome this change of system or legal system«.
The regulation theoretically applies to all refugees who receive a residence permit under Section 24 of the Residence Act.
According to Pro Asyl, however, the hurdle for people from third countries who have also fled Ukraine is high: they must already have had a permanent residence permit in Ukraine and not be able to return to their country of origin.
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