Deputy Minister of National Education Joanna Mucha announced that a school work for Ukrainian children residing in Poland would be introduced from the fresh school year. The regulation will apply about 50-60,000 students.
At a press conference, the Deputy Head of the Ministry of Education stressed that the issue of school work for children of Ukrainian Polish residents was discussed with Ukrainian authorities.
“The ministers who met with us are very curious in introducing this work in Poland. They offer... cooperation. I'm certain we'll take that offer. Most of this plan is ready. We are waiting (...) for the provisions of the bill (...)," said Mucha.
The Deputy Head of the Ministry stressed that the Ministry is convinced that the number of children residing in Poland but not attending schools in the Polish educational strategy is smaller than previously estimated.
“This figure is closer to 50,000 to 60,000 than those large numbers that gave NGOs. Ukrainians have their statistics, I think they are rather accurate and reliable," said Vice-Chief MEN.
As previously reported, Joanna Mucha, Deputy Minister of Education, expressed the desire for Polish schools to be friendly to immigrants, not only from Ukraine. She stressed that more children from different nationalities, including Vietnamese, Hindu and other, were expected to appear in the Polish education strategy in the future.
She admitted that it is highly hard to establish the exact number of Ukrainian children residing in Poland and utilizing the Polish education system. It is estimated that between 50,000 and 100,000 children are presently outside the educational strategy in Poland, most of which benefit mainly from online learning in Ukrainian, and somewhat more attend Polish schools. The fly pointed out that the available statistics, including those relating to social benefits collected by Ukrainians, disagree from each other.
Lega artis AppShe besides announced that since September Ukrainian children who are presently learning online will be invited to the Polish education system.
The Civic Education Centre (CEO) published a report, which stated that 53% of children from Ukraine, or about 150 thousand, do not attend Polish schools. Of these, 112.8,000 are primary school students, and 43.6,000 are secondary school students.
According to data from the Ministry of Education and discipline (MEiN) last autumn, the number of Ukrainians in Polish educational institutions is much higher than previously provided by the Central Statistical Office (GUS) or the ministry itself. A full of 183,461 students from Ukraine came to Poland after the invasion of Russia and received the position of a war refugee, and another 103,073 were Ukrainian citizens who had previously been in Poland. All Ukrainian students educated in Polish institutions were 286 534 at the time. Most students from Ukraine who came to Poland before the war as a gainful emigration attended post-secondary schools (almost 39 thousand) and then primary schools (32 thousand). Among refugees, there were over 11,000 students in post-secondary schools, and almost 113,000 in simple schools. 42.5 1000 Ukrainian children were educated in kindergartens, of which 28,000 were refugees. Almost 1 in 3 children from Ukraine who came to Poland after the outbreak of the war utilized additional free Polish language lessons, and it was as many as 66,834 students.
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