Education Quality and its Drivers in Rural Areas of Poland
Abstract
A two-stage study was carried out. Firstly, a pioneering attempt was made to
measure the quality of education in rural areas of Poland, by county (powiat),
using a synthetic indicator. Secondly, the socioeconomic determinants of that
quality were modelled. A strength of this study is the fact that it covers
the entire population of the given type of administrative units. The analysis
served to verify the hypothesis that exogenic socioeconomic factors are key to
the effectiveness of the educational process in rural areas. It was shown that
in Poland the theories of polarised development are more applicable than those
of endogenic development. There was observed an inversely proportional effect
from the centre–periphery axis on education quality, but, above all, the effect
of several gravitational systems, in which there occurs exogenic diffusion of the
results of economic growth and progress from the present and former provincial
capitals.
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