Research Catalog

Title

Poland's Education and Training [electronic resource]: Boosting and Adapting Human Capital / Paul O'Brien and Wojciech Paczynski

Author

O'Brien, Paul.

Publication

Paris : OECD Publishing, 2006.

Details

Additional Authors

Paczynski, Wojciech.

Description

35 p.; 21 x 29.7cm.

Summary

An effective system of education and training is important for both social and economic reasons. Its role in the Polish economy is to provide the current and future labour force with skills to facilitate both continuing productivity growth and reallocation of resources as structural adjustment proceeds. Important reforms to decentralise primary and secondary education in the late 1990s are now reaching maturity, as cohort sizes decline steeply. These reforms and PISA results have focused attention on quality control and the place of vocational education. Both are important in the tertiary sector, too, which has seen a four-fold expansion in 15 years, mushrooming of private-sector provision and questions on the appropriate balance of public and private funding. Participation in adult training is low too and, as elsewhere, seems to be concentrated among already relatively highly-educated groups but does not seem to be having much impact on improving the human capital of older and less skilled groups. This Working Paper relates to the 2006 OECD Economic Survey of Poland (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/poland).

Series Statement

OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 1815-1973 ; no.495

Uniform Title

OECD Economics Department Working Papers, no.495.

Subject

• Economics
• Poland

LCCN

10.1787/632107685302

OCLC

oecd-lib-003255

Author

O'Brien, Paul.

Title

Poland's Education and Training [electronic resource]: Boosting and Adapting Human Capital / Paul O'Brien and Wojciech Paczynski

Imprint

Paris : OECD Publishing, 2006.

Series

OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 1815-1973 ; no.495

OECD Economics Department Working Papers, 1815-1973 ; no.495.

Connect to:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/632107685302

Indexed Term

Economics

Poland

Added Author

Paczynski, Wojciech.

Other Standard Identifier

10.1787/632107685302 doi