Foreigners in the Polish Academic System at the Beginning of the 21st Century. A Quantitative Analysis of Their Employment According to the Official Documents (original) (raw)

Polish Sociological Review, 2014

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Abstract: This is an empirical quantitative analysis of the official data coming from the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education. The foreign scholars in Poland at the beginning of the 21st century are presented in the context of the global "brain circulation" or migration of highly qualified specialists. The second context is the present Polish academic system. In this paper we discuss characteristics of the analysed data base, universities and colleges where the foreign scholars are usually employed, the academic disciplines they represent, the relations between the number of foreign scholars and the institutional prestige of schools employing them, and conclusions on what we can and cannot learn from the data set analysed here.Keywords: Brain circulation, migrations of scholars, academic system in Poland, foreign scholars in Poland.IntroductionThe following is the empirical analysis of the official database provided by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher ...

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