Przemysław Czarnek, Minister of Education and Science has appointed the Refugee Education Council, composed of twenty specialists, mainly former ministers and deputy ministers of education. It will meet every week to analyze the situation and the new postulates of the leading authorities. “Thus, we want to respond positively and solve problems that will arise in the near future with the next Ukrainian refugees emigrating to Poland”, said Czarnek.

Today in Poland there are over 500,000 pupils- children of Ukrainian refugees. So far, 11,500 have signed up to schools in Poland.

The head of the Ministry of Education and Science assessed that most of Ukrainian children have been assigned to Polish classes. “It is assumed that the first children who applied to school are children who either speak Polish or understand Polish. And it is the right decision to direct them to classes with Polish children” said Czarnek.

Children who do not speak Polish will be enrolled in schools next.

According to Minister Czarnek, the best way to organize education in the Polish education system for Ukrainian refugees, who in major part do not speak nor understand Polish is to create preparatory classes. That is why in the Special Refugee Act, the possibility of creating these school, inter-school and inter-municipal units is included.

The aim of the proposed solutions is to create a subsystem for Ukrainian children that would be the least stressful, guarantee them educational care and the least invasive in term of the Polish education system and Polish children and parallel to Polish system.

Adrian Andrzejewski