Investors who opt for Poland should barely have any problems finding suitable personnel.

 Highly-qualified workers and well-educated specialists are easily available. This may have much to do with the fact that Poland has almost 500 academic centres. University teaching staff account for around 100,000 specialists, half of which hold a PhD degree. Amongst the numerous graduates produced every year by the academic centres, there is a considerable number of young people educated by Polish Universities of Technology i.e. prospective highly sought-after experts in IT, modern technologies and a variety of other technology fields.  This creates the perfect conditions for investors in search of human capital for new projects. Indeed, Polish engineers and scientists are highly acknowledged across the world.

 The high standards of the Polish educational system are reflected in a number of scientific achievements. It is worth noting that Polish scientists are well known for the discovery of the first extra-solar planetary system, the creation of the technology for the production of the blue laser, the production process to make the world’s smallest synthetic diamonds and for the isolation of queen cells from bone marrow.

The quality of Polish scientific and technical expertise is confirmed by the fact that the largest global corporations tend to locate their R&D centres in our country. Polish specialists from the IT sector are highly sought-after, not only by international corporations in Poland, but are often recruited to work abroad. In fact, Poles form a large percentage of managers responsible for R&D departments within the world’s largest corporations.

Polish specialists are here to enhance your performance!

Poland has almost 2 million academic students, i.e. half of the population between 19 and 24 years of age. The number has been  rising steadily. While 2003 witnessed 366,000 graduates leaving Polish Universities, 2006 saw 394,000 graduates. It is worth emphasising that the number of graduates who opt for doctoral studies is also on the increase; in 2006 the number reached 35,000. Taking into account the size of the country, it is not surprising that we rank first in the region in terms of the number of students.

Higher education students (in thousands)

Poland	1941,4
Hungary	424,2
Czech Republic	321,2
Slovakia	171,3

Source: GUS i.e. the Central Statistical Office for Poland), statistical bureaus of the Czech Rep., Slovakia and Hungary, 2007

Needless to say, Polish students have an excellent knowledge of foreign languages. Over half of them speak fluent English and the vast majority of the rest have a basic understanding of the language. The second most commonly studied language is German, followed by Russian, French and Spanish.