Overview
- The government published Decreto Supremo N.° 017-2026-MINEDU in the official gazette on Thursday that immediately updated Pronabec’s regulation to raise access and retention standards and define sanctions.
- New academic thresholds require scholarship winners to rank at least in the tercio superior for access and retention with a passing weighted average and impose a minimum fifth-superior pregrado standing for entry to most postgrad awards.
- Article 34 lists concrete causes for losing a scholarship such as failing the same course twice or earning a failing weighted average and ties some losses to repayment of last-semester costs plus temporary or permanent bans on state benefits.
- The decree includes transitory protections that exempt current beneficiaries from the new double-fail causal and allows limited financing for repeated pregrado courses while directing Pronabec to set convocatoria bases and annex procedures.
- Rules for credits allow a one-time, exceptional change of career or institution under strict conditions with no extension of financed time and make loan access contingent on risk classification, guarantors and Pronabec’s institutional budget coverage, shifting public funding toward careers linked to national and labor-market priorities.