Polish Education Grading and Uk Edu. Grading?

I’ve placed this request in this forum as I could not see a more appropriate one, feel free to move it [admin] if you see a better place for it.

My girlfriend is very interested in pursuing her new found interest in mental health nursing, and of course I would wish to help in anyway I can- however I am unsure how the Polish education translates into the UK education grading, is there anyone who would be willing to advise?

I know I could just approach the authorities but I would like first to be able to help her in an informed way. As it stands she is working in a private nursing home [UK] but is offered little training and development regardless of her obvious aptitude for her job.

I think in Poland there are the following grades in schools:

1 - unsatisfactory
2 - poor
3 - average
4 - good
5 - very good
6 - excellent

As far as colleges/universities are concerned, I think most of them don't have the "1" and "6" grades.

Thank you for the help, I went to the local further education department today and they promised to send me some information, I think if it is valuable then I will post it here- I think it would be valuable to Polish nationals if they could directly compare their education grades with the equivalents in the EU country they choose to work.

My info is out of date, but probably still relevant.
I assume your girlfriend took matura ...
Everything should be acceptable as A-level equivalents with one God-Almighty exception.
English.
If she wants to get anywhere job-wise, she must get GCSE English. All FE colleges offer it cheaply, and it's usually available as a one year evening course. Without it she would always have her hands tied behind her back when job-hunting.
It was the best thing I ever forced my wife to do in England. No Cambridge Certificate is worth half as much, even if they are more difficult to get. UK employers want UK qualifications they can easily understand, not something foreign they'd have to stretch their brain around.

Polish qualifications mean nothing outside Poland.

I think you will find that if a person gained their degree after they went in to the EU it counts..



Both of my brothers work in Mental Health and to be honest its not a good time for a non national to try and get in to nursing...just arent the jobs for the highly qualified English, so a non national has no chance, they interview from within and even though the job might be advertised (as by law) an outsider has little or no chance.

That's too bad.
Here in PL I teach many univeristy students from USA, Germany, Britain, Scandinavia, Italy, Spain etc.
They study nursing, IT, medicine, history, philosophy etc.
I guess they will end up as homeless losers, when they come back to their countries.
Or maybe it's like only Polish people qualifications mean nothing outside PL?
As long as you are whatever native, you will get a good job, even if graduated from Planet Mars Univeristy.

My wife's qualifications in language teaching were recognised in the UK - and that was back in 1991.
But they would have been worthles without her English GCSE (mała matura)