Organisation of higher schools in the second Polish Republic under the legislation relating to science and higher education Cover Image

Organizacja uczelni akademickich w II Rzeczypospolitej w świetle ustawodawstwa dotyczącego nauki i szkolnictwa wyższego
Organisation of higher schools in the second Polish Republic under the legislation relating to science and higher education

Author(s): Wiesław Sieciński
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Public Administration, Public Law
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: administrative history; higher education second Polish Republic

Summary/Abstract: Twenty years of the Polish independence (1918–1939) were among others the time of increasing efforts to develop education and science, which also reforred to the higher education. At that time higher schools were both public and private. To set up a higher school it was obligatory to pass a legislative act. Higher schools were called universities, universities of technology, academies or main schools. The organisation of higher schools was based on the principle of the sa called autonomy mainly determined by the acts of 1920 and then of 1933 relating to academic schools. The supervisory authority responsible for all the activities of those schools was the Minister of religious Confessions and Public Education.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 09
  • Page Range: 45-58
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish