What are the conditions for foreigners to study in Polish schools?

1. Persons who are not Polish citizens benefit from education and care in:
a) kindergartens or other forms of pre-school education,
a) primary schools also in special primary schools
b) secondary schools (high schools, technical schools, industry schools) also in special secondary schools
c) art schools, educational establishments
on conditions applicable to Polish citizens.

2. People who are not Polish citizens and are a subject to compulsory school or compulsory education who do not know Polish language or know it at an insufficient level to benefit from education have the right to (at the school where the student is learning):
a) additional, free Polish language learning (conducted individually or in groups in scope of 2 lessons per week),
b) assistance provided by a person who speaks the language of the country of origin,
c) additional compensatory classes in a maximum of three teaching subjects (conducted individually or in groups of lesson hours per week).

3. For people who are not Polish citizens and who are subject to compulsory education, a diplomatic or consular institution of their country of origin operating in Poland or a cultural and educational association of a given nationality may be organized at school, in consultation with the school headmaster and with the consent of the leading body, learning the language and culture of the country origin.

4. Citizens of the Member States of the European Union, as well as their family members with the right of residence or the right of permanent residence, persons of Polish origin within the meaning of the provisions on repatriation, persons who have been granted a permanent residence permit in the territory of the Republic of Poland, persons holding a valid Pole’s Card, persons , for whom such entitlement arises from international agreements, persons who have been granted refugee status, and their family members, persons who have been granted a tolerated stay permission, persons who have been granted permission to stay for humanitarian reasons and their family members, and persons who have been granted subsidiary protection and their family members, persons enjoying temporary protection in the territory of the Republic of Poland, persons who have been granted a long-term residence in European Union permission in the territory of the Republic of Poland, persons who have been granted a permission to stay in the territory of the Republic of Poland in temporary time, persons who apply for international protection and members of their families, persons who have a residence card with the annotation “access to the labor market”, a Schengen visa or a national visa issued for the purpose of performing work on the territory of the Republic of Poland may, under conditions alike Polish citizens take advantage from education in public adult schools, public post-secondary schools, public art schools, public institutions and public colleges of social service employees as well as lifelong learning in the form of vocational qualification courses.

5. People who are not Polish citizens and are not mentioned above may benefit from education in public adult schools, public post-secondary schools, public art schools, public institutions and public colleges of social service employees, and continuing education in the form of vocational qualification courses:
a) as scholarship holders receiving a scholarship awarded by the minister responsible for education and upbringing;
b) as scholarship holders receiving a scholarship awarded by the school or institution’s management body, by the school’s or institution’s headmaster;
c) on payment terms

6. People who are not Polish citizens may be awarded a scholarship of the minister competent for education and upbringing in a monthly amount equal to the amount of the scholarship of the Prime Minister.

Detailed information on recruitment is available at:
https://nabor.pcss.pl/szczecin/