Additional scholarships for science students
Building engineering, elektrotechnology/electrical engineering and machine building are among the ten key-study-fields for the future of Polish economy.
The rest of the key-study-fields-list, elaborated by the Minister of Higher Education Ms Barbara Kudrycka, includes: environmental engineering, power engineering, mechanics and machine building, automatics and robotics, mathematics, biomedical engineering, and Mechanical and Electronics Engineering. Due to the growing demand for specialist in the areas the government is to boost youth interest in science by the so called desired-faculties programme. Students who opt for science are to be granted additional 1000 PLN monthly scholarship, starting from the very first semester of studies. According to Dziennik daily also calleges offering programes within the mentioned fields may count on financial support.
According to Dziennik the pilot project is to start in the 2008 academic year and the envisaged number of students to be granted the scholarship is said to account for 3 thousand. While the granting of the scholarship to future students is to be based on the final secondary school exam performance, the financial support for academic centres is to be appointed through an open competition. As the Ministry of Science and Higher Education emphasises the need for new technologies development, special attention will be paid to the innovative aspects of the syllabuses. The Vice-Minister of Science, Grażyna Prawelska-Skrzypek, stated that the opening of the competition is to be expected next week. That would give the academic centres some three weeks for the preparation and application. The Ministry’s final decision about the subsidy and additional recruitment will have been taken by the end of June 2008.
Dziennik states that 30 key-study-fields will have been chosen by the year 2013 with an estimated number of 21 thousand students entering courses, mainly in science, the natural sciences and engineering. Within the next five years the Ministry of Science planes to allocate over 1 billion PLN to this end. (Dziennik)
Source: PAIiIZ
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