‘Science is cool’

On account of variations in class programs between Ukraine and Austria, Ukrainian adolescents usually enter college sooner than Austrian college students. This episode of the Educated Youth podcast discusses the variations in increased schooling. The scholars’ dialog centres round Agata Zysiak’s article ‘Bleaching Blue Collars’ that attracts insights from the experiences of first-generation college students below state socialism in Poland and the obstacles they confronted when attempting to enter college. The scholars share their very own ideas about coming into college and the difficulties and challenges they may encounter in Vienna.

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Socialist reform and modernization in post-WWII Poland opened the higher-education gate to underprivileged college students. However early streaming to vocational college and societal expectations remained as obstacles. What turned of the working-class freshers who made it to the lofty heights of academia?