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ROKITA-POSKART, D. (2021). What universities towns and cities gain from students' retention? Evidence from Opole. In (Klímová, V., Zítek, V., eds.) XXIV. mezinárodní kolokvium o regionálních vědách. Sborník příspěvků. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, pp. 26-32. ISBN 978-80-210-9896-1. DOI 10.5817/CZ.MUNI.P210-9896-2021-3.
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What university towns and cities gain from students' retention?
Evidence from Opole in Poland
Diana Rokita-Poskart Faculty of Economics and Management Opole University of Technology
Fot. PawetSzpala
The motivation
The beginning of 90.
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The rapid increase in the number of students and the dynamic growth of educational institutions
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The ist decade of the 21 st century
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The numer of students in Poland - ca. 4.00 ths.
The numer of Higher Education Institutions (HEI) -112
The gross enrolment ratio - ca. 13%
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The numer of students in Poland - ca. 2 m.
The numer of Higher Education Institutions (HEI) -
The gross enrolment ratio - ca. 4.9%
The consequences of the inflow of students for the development of university
towns and cities
Cultura
(Russo, Van den Berg, Lavanga 2003;
Students (educational migrants)
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Demographic
(Okolski 2011)
Economic and demographic consequences of the student's inflow to
towns and cities - conceptual framework
Chanell via which the student's inflow impact towns and cities
Local goods and services markets
Local labour markets
The long-term development of towns and cities
Economic and demographic consequences of the student's inflow to
towns and cities - conceptual framework
Local goods and services markets
Chanell via which the student's inflow impact towns and cities
Local labour markets
The long-term development of towns and cities
The case study of Opole
HIGH RATIO OF STUDENTS HIGH SHARE OF A/OA/- THE iNTERMETROPOLITAN
PER INHABITANTS LOCAL STUDENTS LOCATION OFTHE CITY
The main hypothesis of the presentation
The inflow of students to the university towns and cities among who dominate women, and their prosper to remain after graduation, cause surpluses of young women in the university city
(Endlung 2005, Lang, Henn, Sgibnev, Ehrlich 2015, Wiest 2016, Joriczy 2018, Xing, Sun 2019)
The collecting data methods
THE SURVEY AMONG STUDENTS
• The random-quota sampling
• The auditorium survey
• The survey questionnaire
• N=6^2 among 730 respondents
THE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OFTHE RESEARCH RESULTS AND PUBLIC DATA
Place of residence of students' post-graduation plans
100,0%
80,0%
60,0%
46,9%
				
	1      22,4% ^			25/7%
	1 ,			11,2u/0
in Opole      / in Opolskie Voivodeship but    in other voivodeship in Poland abroad
outside Opole
I Place of residence of students' post-graduation plans by I gender
100,0%
80,0%
I    Place of residence of students' post-graduation plans by
I age
100,0%
80,0%
60,0%
40,0%
20,0%
0,0%
52,8%
46,2% 45(3o/0
57,4%
to live outside Opole, but in the to live in other voivodeship in Opolskie Vivodeship Poland
■ 19-20   ■ 21-22   »23-24   »25-26   ■ 27 and more
The number of men and women aged 20-34 in the poviats of the Opolskie Voivodeship
■ men ■ female
The discussion on the impact students' retention on univeristy towns and cities (an expample of Opole)
ca. 1.35 ths. additional inhabitants in one academic year-by graduates retention by the city
additional young women
the accumulation of human capital by the city
an important investment potential of the university city
Factors affecting the location of FDI in Opole
The proximity of universities and the availability of graduates (85.7%)
Language skills among graduates (71.4%)
Lower labour costs (57.1%)
Workforce qualification (42.9%)
The availibility of labour in general (28.6%)
Other (28.6%)
Thank you for your attention d.rokita-poskart@po.edu.pl