SZKOLNICTWO NIEPUBLICZNE W POLSCE
PRIVATE SECTOR EDUCATION IN POLAND

Summary/Abstract: The article is based on the speech entitled Nichtoffentliche Schulen In Polen given at the international conference on Non-State Education Institutions in Eastern Europe – Chances and Borders of State Education. The conference was held by Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Osteuropakunde in Soest, Germany on 25-27 Novembth er 2004. As it is suggested in the title, the article is a presentation of non-state education development in Poland in the times of political system transformation, begun in 1989. There is a clear division into non-state primary and secondary education on the one hand (which is the author’s main subject of interest), and non-state university education on the other hand. Initially, however, he focuses on non-state education prehistory in Poland, beginning in 1918. In Uwaga końcowa (Conclusion), the author assumes that schools from the private sector have finished the state’s monopoly in education. They have become a new but stable education model. They encourage application of new approaches and heighten education level. If certain conditions are met by the state, they can make education chances equal in the society. Reasonable education administration should support good schools and good universities. Badly equipped schools with poor staff will have to disappear from Polish education landscape.

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