The Ministry of Education recommends setting up a preparatory ward erstwhile a fresh group of students from the "foreign system" joins the school, due to the fact that it is simply a form of education preparing to enter the alleged regular class...
During the Tuesday session of the National and cultural Minorities Commission, the Minister of Interior and Administration discussed the situation of the Ukrainian number in Poland in the light of the influx of immigrants from Ukraine and then the Minister of Education's information on the educational situation in this context.
The manager of the Department of spiritual Confessions and National and cultural Minorities at the Ministry of abroad Affairs Andrzej Rudlicki reported that in 2014 Ukrainian citizens had 41,000 permits to stay in Poland, and by June 2024 this number importantly exceeded 1 million.
Referring to the subject of Magda Witan's gathering from the Department of global Cooperation in MEN, she stated that support was provided for students from abroad to the Polish system, and its aim is to prepare them as shortly as possible for full integration into the strategy and the alleged regular class.
In the case of abroad children – she added – discipline can be organized in preparatory departments. It is besides compensatory classes – so that there are no large differences between Ukrainian and Polish programs, as well as additional and free learning of Polish.
She recalled that intercultural assistants would be introduced from 1 September. There will besides be a school work for Ukrainian children. She noted that "the exception will be 1 year, which from 1 September will enter the last class of Ukrainian education strategy and in 2025 these students will plan to approach the alleged Ukrainian matura".
She explained that it would be the only year that could proceed education in an online formula. – All another people should join the Polish school – emphasized Witan.
Representatives of the ministries were asked, among others, how many preparatory departments would be opened and whether the profession of intercultural assistant was described.
– The Ministry recommends that whenever a fresh group of students from a abroad strategy joins the school, each time they form a preparatory ward – emphasized Witan. – This is simply a form of education that allows, on the 1 hand, the implementation of the programme basis and is an chance to receive promotion at the end of the year, but at the same time this process is with emphasis on teaching Polish, so that it can later seamlessly enter the strategy and enter the alleged regular class She added.
She stated that, as regards the "intercultural assistant", the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy accepted the proposal to enter a fresh classification. She explained that the intercultural assistant "diagnoses stages of cultural shock and adaptation barriers (...), takes preventive and corrective action". She noted that "there is no time limit for the employment of an intercultural assistant".
She added that money from the Aid Fund was provided for the backing of the position, "but the Ministry and the Government besides take action to receive EU funds, as everything will happen, we will receive PLN 500 million in general to support exile children from Ukraine". She added that they besides provided for a component that would let for employment or training of "intercultural assistants".
Source: PAP