The military needs more leadership. In order to accomplish this goal, the army wants to establish at the universities civilian schools under the regulation that will educate officers. In particular, the General Staff of the HR is counting on universities, method universities, IT universities, conducting studies with cybersecurity or communications specialities. gathering with rectors – already in March.
The establishment – known from the interwar period – of the schools of the reserve population is linked to the plans of the Ministry of Defence. hotel wants to grow reserves so that in the future together with the professional army and territorial defence troops formed half a million armed forces. In addition to the creation of the alleged advanced readiness reserve, the establishment of schools under the conditions of the reserve is part of this programme.
Gen. Wiesław Kukuła, Head of the General Staff of the Polish Army, admits that the thought refers to the experiences of the Second Polish Republic, and its authors were besides inspired by solutions utilized in another NATO countries, especially the USA. The military explains that the aim is to increase the number of officers, who presently account for 13 percent of all professional soldiers in the Polish Army. While in NATO armies it is about 20 percent (in the US 18 percent). According to the assumptions of the General Staff, this disproportion is to be reduced by 2039 precisely thanks to schools under the provisions.
Piloting in the fall
Under the pilot programme, they will be launched in the academic year 2026/2027 and will include around 300 volunteers. discipline will last for 3 years, and the reserve patients will receive a monthly scholarship of PLN 1000. Deputy Prime Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz stressed that it was a financial injection for those who wanted to combine college studies with gaining the skills of an officer.
Details? For the time being, it is known that the education at the school of the reserve subjects is to last at least 139 days and include training to prepare the spares for promotion to the first rank of officer. Prior completion of basic training will be a condition for joining the programme. In the program – general military subjects, including tactics, leadership, but besides the survey of regulations. During the holiday, after each completed year, the subjects will be required to have 28 days of integrated applicable military training in units or training centres. After the completion of the training and passing of the officers' examinations, graduates will be appointed as a Reserve Lieutenant. Then they will besides receive a mobilization allocation to a peculiar unit. But – as he points out Colonel Paweł Wronka of the General Staff – Freshly baked officers will be able to choose their career way in the military, specified as an active reserve or WOT.
Not only method colleges
Gen. Wiesław Kukuła emphasizes that specified a solution is even 15 times cheaper form of education than studies at military academies. The establishment of schools under the provisions does not mean that voluntary military training for students and graduates of universities, specified as e.g. Academic Legacy Programme.
As announced by the head of SGWP, pilot details will be discussed in March at a gathering with the rectors of the universities concerned. All universities can apply to the program, but the General Staff is counting on specialities that can be peculiarly useful in the army, i.e. method directions, computer discipline or communications. The military hopes that in the next academic year 2027/2028 the program will be conducted on a wider scale. And all year, another universities will join it, so that there are at least a fewer 1000 subjects in Poland.
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