Poland wants to send the best students abroad. He is currently working on the program of the Ministry of Science. The idea is not new – it’s still the most talented promised the previous minister of education. It turned out, however, that prepared by a team of OP program has many disadvantages. Effect? Few people reported to him. One of the weakest points in the assessment of student organizations was to limit that after zafundowanym by the state turnusie in Cambridge or Harvard you have to go back home and work off it politely five years.
And without the program abroad is today 48 thousand. Polish students. 2.6 thousand. of them went to France to 1.8 thousand. – to USA. But the most popular direction of travel is the United Kingdom -uczy there 6.2 thousand. young Poles. As shown in the study for the Boston Consulting Group, and without a whip in the form of a ministerial order, most of them would like to return home after graduation – it declared 77 per cent. of them. As much as 42 percent. people willing to do this right after graduation. But when the expectations are in contact with reality, it turns out that return from abroad or it is not easy, or there is no why. And those who return to decide, do not exclude that, however, gone.
To go is not so difficult
Anna Korzeniewska to the United States He left still in high school. Behind this decision they became her curiosity about the world and suggestions of parents to ensure themselves the best possible education. At the high school we did not stop there. Anna continued her studies at the City University of New York (CUNY), and later at New York University (nuy) postgraduate programs.
– I like the American system of education that is flexible, that It provides many opportunities. Classes are much more practical, no-time and part-time study, all of the activities you can adjust the schedule at work. And employers often appreciate experience gained in college on a par with the knowledge of the university – he says. Korzeniewska not zamieniłaby study on a similar program in Poland, but returned to the country. – In the US, I felt lonely. Here is all my family, friends. Today, in retrospect, I think this is the best solution: first to leave, and then use the experience gained in Poland – he said.
Today helps others leave to study abroad. The Talent Development Foundation free advice on where and how to look for information on opportunities and funding. In his second project, GlobalEdu already commercially organizes the whole application process for universities and recruiting for internships in the USA. – The mission of our foundation is to help students make wise educational and occupational choices. With time appeared more and more questions about planning a career abroad, mainly in the US and the UK. The students said they would like to leave, but do not really know how to do this, the procedure seemed complicated and expensive study itself. We decided to complement our offer with such advice – she recalls.
says Anna Korzeniewska, none of the teenagers who advises the foundation or GlobalEdu, it does not declare that he would like to go on forever. More often they are interested in new experiences, quality of education or just breaking out of the house.
comes back is not always succeeds
Break out of the house would also Maria. Like Anna Korzeniewska, also he began in the American high school. But for a change to the so-called. exchange. – In its US counterpart during the written exam. It’s kind of a test for reading comprehension and logical thinking. In fact, I not exactly know what will solve this test, but we all wrote it, so I walked over to him. After a few months we got the results, and I learned that I became best in school. Counselor said that with such results should apply to Harvard – he says.
After returning from the United obeyed. To be sure proved, what are the thresholds find universities, and decided to once again come to the US test. In secret from their parents (“because who would have thought that a simple girl gets on one of the best universities in the world”) he came to Warsaw for the exams conducted in an American school. Later filed papers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the best technical universities in the world. And then it was like a movie. Waiting for the results of the electronic system of the university. Sending parents to the movie, so they did not see her tears, as it turns out, none of that. A letter of congratulations, the meaning of which for the first time to her not arrived and that he had again, spelling, reading poorly-speaking brother. Phone congratulating the university admissions office.
In these circumstances, the Polish baccalaureate was only a formality. Studies at MIT lasted four years. – Changed my perspective. I do not fear the news, I have the feeling that everything I need to know how to best. I know I have a good basis on which I can build, learning the skills needed for the job – he says. – I have a comparison, because my brother is studying in Poland. Do not consider myself to be a better engineer than him, I think in your area is very good. I may not have a detailed, bookish knowledge, but it is extensive, solid base. I can work anywhere and quickly gain the necessary work skills.
Maria after studying in the United States passed a year at Cambridge. She decided to come to the country. – I thought I want to see how he works and lives here. I would not call this going back, because part of the change of perspective is also the fact that I can live and work anywhere in the world. If something does not suit me, I will change. Today I am a strategic adviser, working for a company that employs people with a similar story to mine. In two months within the same company again, I move, because I decided that I would like to advise technology companies, in Poland there is no such possibility – he says.
Maurice Łyczko, aged 29, was West over the past 10 years. – For me it became Poland abroad. We can say that now I went to Polish, and not that I came back – he jokes. In the Netherlands, he studied management in the media and entertainment. In Spain, audiovisual communication and acting. Later in the US was acting courses. – I learned languages and I saw how people live. On the other hand, I was taken away something that is more rooted in humans. I do not have one place that I could call their own city, your home, your space – lists. But there is no doubt that now, with nazbieranym luggage will be able to do something good in Poland.
Just looks at Alexander Kozielska. – I think that young people should go back – he argues. The very first passed the International Baccalaureate School in Swanwee in Wales, then graduated from the University of Manchester. – The system of teaching in the UK requires the student’s responsibility. There are a lot of his own time, which we can manage ourselves. It is said that 1 hour lecture should accrue four hours of their own work. But when we do, that’s our business – reports. – In connection with this during my studies I tried a lot of things. I worked as a mentor for children with disabilities was combined psychology, he studied, with business. Englishmen proceed from the assumption that the young man at that age there is to know about where he wants to go, but college is a time to try as many opportunities. Then a little pity life. Unlike in Poland, where the first professional touches are earned after graduation – he says.
Sam after each year of study returned to Polish holiday. First three-month internship at Coca-Cola. The following year – in a psychiatric hospital in Lodz. After graduation, she got three jobs – two in London and one in Warsaw. She chose Warsaw, because she knew someone who wanted to hire her. She gave a well remember the boss of beverage company, and that it now drew. She knew also his new company, and she knew that the work will be conducive to its development – when put together their different experiences, she was convinced that he wants to work analyzing consumer behavior.
Skilled looking for opportunities
The second reason why Alexander Kozielska returned, he was sentiment. – I’ve been in England five years old when I left, I knew that it is only for a time. I believe that young people returning to the Polish have large and diverse experience. Using them, we can create a better environment for future generations. Maybe it sounds pathetic, but that’s what I think – he argues. – Paradoxically, I confirmed in my views studies. Once we discussed topics related to the mechanism of brain drain, brain drain. I felt that I did not want to be a part of it, I would not want to participate in this, which brings Poland damage.
The first big wave of emigration of well-educated were in the 80s from the 700 thousand. people who left the country then, 15 percent. He had a master’s degree. In a country of all persons with diplomas was only 7 percent. Another wave of educated drained after the Polish accession to the European Union. Before our accession to the Community for West leaving mainly people with vocational education (61 percent.). Masters accounted for 15 percent. emigration. As early as 2004. Migrants with tertiary education was 20 per cent. In the overall population legitymowało college degrees to 14 percent. people of working age.
Among the emigrants who left the Polish after the accession, the largest proportion of well-educated was among those who went to the Czech Republic and Ireland. More than 30 per cent. the whole emigration to these countries are people with college diplomas. 25 percent. – Of emigration to the UK – according to analyzes conducted by the Centre for Migration Research at Warsaw University.
After the 2011. Census CSO estimates that the Polish exodus of more than 1.2 million people with at least secondary education. Among immigrants aged 13 and over is their 67 per cent., While in the country this level of education is 49 percent. Poles. Emigrants with higher education were already 400 thousand. According to the OECD, abroad it is currently 48 thousand. our scholars.
emigration of well-qualified staff brings serious consequences for the country. It is true that unemployment rates are improving (ie. The export of unemployment), but as a consequence businesses is increasingly difficult to find qualified specialists. Effect? As employs 20 people IT company. – I offer 5 thousand. zł prize to the person who instructed me programmer who will stay with me for more than a probationary period. The award is valid for a few months, and the developer is not found. Reich capable of simply left – says its founder.
– I think that the chances of development are everywhere, you just need to look for, to be open to possibilities – says Alexander Kozielska.
The work must be challenging
An analysis of the Boston Consulting Group, the biggest motivator for young people attracted back to Polish are not money. They set one condition: you arrive, if they have an attractive job offer. At the same time the most attractive means interesting.
Such an offer at the moment does not see in Poland Aleksander Żemła, biochemist, in exile for a decade. – To go curiosity pushed me. I went to high school with the Matura bilingual. One day with the presentation of the university came from Scotland. I got interested in, and that my boyfriend also wanted to leave then, both aplikowaliśmy – she recalls.
finished pharmacology at the University of Dundee. He admits that comfort was incomparable to Polish. – Laboratories are well-appointed and had funds for research, I traveled to conferences. There I met them almost no Poles. And if it is, those who have chosen to study abroad. Unfortunately, such meetings are expensive, and besides, you have to have something to be proud of them. If the laboratory is not good, it does not send people – lists.
studied her so comfortable that it was still on his doctorate. – Studying overseas paid off, because I did not have much trouble finding a job – he admits. Today Żemła again changed the place of residence. Now he works at Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands. – The work is interesting and robust salary. In fact, every third week I meet with my family – reports. Alexander admits that the longer sitting abroad, the harder it will be her return to the country. Also for personal reasons. – My partner is Dutch. Even if I find a good job, we will have to think whether he finds a job.
This is a problem for the growing group of young people. Last year, Poles and Poles abroad have entered at least 17.8 thousand. marriages – according to data from the Central Statistical Office. This is what the twelfth marriage entered into by Poles in general. These data are probably not complete. There is no obligation to notify wedding when taken abroad for Polish registry office. They do this to you, which is needed eg. Tax reasons. A large part of what marriage is concluded with foreigners.
Żemła constantly looking for new challenges. – The Polish for now I will not be coming back. All the time I study, I want to gain experience. Maybe one day I arrive, but I have the ambition to excel in a high position. For now, I did not find any equivalent in the country offer me – he said.
Similar sentiments have Marta. Doctoral studies received an invitation to Ireland. There a doctorate in the field of oncology and received a job offer. Today he has experience in international projects, further offers professional. However, she would like to go back to Polish. It is abroad for seven years, but has had enough. Besides he believes that its experience could be useful on the site. For now, the market thinks differently.
