Foreigners in the Polish Academic System at the Beginning of the 21st Century. A Quantitative Analysis of their Employment According to the Official Documents1

• Authors: Janusz Mucha , Kamil Łuczaj
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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

EN

brain circulation; migrations of scholars; academic system in Poland; foreign scholars in Poland

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Socjologiczne
• Journal: Polish Sociological Review
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 185
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 113-130

Dates

published

2014-03-30

Contributors

author

Janusz Mucha

• AGH University of Science and Technology

author

Kamil Łuczaj

• Jagiellonian University