About 12,000 children from Ukraine already enrolled in Warsaw kindergartens and schools

The lack of a sufficient number of teachers – and not only of those who speak Ukrainian or Russian, the language barrier, and the lack of sufficient funds to create preparatory units for students from Ukraine – are just some of the challenges facing Warsaw. There are now around 100,000 in the capital. Ukrainian children in nursery, preschool, and school-age.

"We have about 280,000 young people from Warsaw, so it would be an increase of over 1/3. We are getting ready to open new preparatory departments and we will accept students from Ukraine as long as our educational institutions can manage," Renata Kaznowska, vice-mayor of the city, assured.

The Warsaw City Hall is also cooperating with the Ministry of Education of Ukraine on introducing remote learning for those students who want to continue learning according to the Ukrainian core curriculum.

"As soon as we heard that the first trains and buses were going to Warsaw, we knew that we had many challenges ahead of us, mainly related to the first care for refugees from Ukraine - giving water, tea or a hot meal, providing medical assistance. But immediately after signing the special act on refugees, we knew that we also had to prepare in terms of education," Renata Kaznowska added.

About 12,000 children from Ukraine are already enrolled in Warsaw kindergartens and schools. A serious challenge at the moment is the shortage of teaching staff for preparatory departments. Even before the outbreak of the war, there was a shortage of approx. 2,000 teachers in the capital, now this gap has increased proportionally.

(Newseria)