Łukasz Abramowicz

Piotr Labenz

Michał Miśkiewicz

Tuition, reforms and liberalisation of Polish higher education

Higher education is one of most important factors which influence social and cultural development of every country. Without a common access to education, we cannot even think of building knowledge-based economy. Therefore, education is not only a cultural and social common property, but it is also a product with determined supply and demand. Polish higher education system has many weaknesses and recent reform will probably be too conservative to overcome them. The authors suggest that implementing a compulsory tuition in all universities would be a good incentive for further changes.