Poland engages in scientific cooperation with the United Arab Emirates
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Minister of Science Lena Kolarska-Bobińska signed an agreement on cooperation in science and higher education with the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Currently 800 students from Arab countries and only five from the UAE study at all Polish universities.
A cooperation agreement for the United Arab Emirates has been signed by the UAE Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Hamdan bin Mubarak Al-Nahyan. The meeting of Minister Lena Kolarska Bobinska with her UAE counterpart was held in the Presidential Palace during the visit of UAE delegation.
As reported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, 800 students from Arab countries currently study at all Polish universities. Only five of them come from the United Arab Emirates (UAE). "Now we turn to Polish institutions with a request to promote our universities in that region" - said Minister Lena Kolarska-Bobińska.
Ministry of Science strengthens Polish-UAE cooperation in higher education and science, and wants to raise public awareness of Polish universities in the UAE and attract students from the Emirates to Poland. In the past year, the ministry launched an Arabic language version of the website www.go-poland.pl. Poland also established cooperation with the Sultanate of Oman, and talks have begun on similar agreements with Qatar and Kuwait.
46.1 thousand foreign students currently study in Poland. Compared to the academic year 2013/2014, their number increased by more than 10,000. International students, however, are only 3.1 percent of the total student population, while the average for OECD countries is 6.9 percent.
"Polish universities are opening up to the world and have great potential. They offer foreign students a high quality of teaching, attractive courses taught in English and competitive costs. In recent years they are attracting more and more young people from all over the world" - emphasised Minister Kolarska-Bobińska.
She assured that the Ministry of Science was consistently increasing the internationalisation of Polish universities. "This is one of our priorities. In our new programme - Universities of the Future - universities will receive 75 million euros to finance foreign accreditation, attracting lecturers from abroad and launch educational programs in foreign languages" - she added.
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