Many countries have some kind of financial aid program for their students.EURYDICE, Modernisation of Higher Education in Europe: Funding and the Social Dimension (2011), p. 50-57. In countries that provide education to all at nominal cost, financial aid may have only a tertiary link to educational status, instead tied to the economic conditions of the family, and financial support for students is primarily indirect. In Belgium, for example, "[t]here is no system of student loans and direct support is only given in the form of means-tested grants to students from low-income families", which constitutes a very limited proportion of students.OECD, OECD Economic Surveys: Belgium 2007 (2007), p. 97.
