Politics, Economy, Society

When thinking up address of the blog over seventeen years ago, I deliberately chose to name it and nickname myself "student SGH"...

Can’t recall now how I have come across a series of books by Mikołaj Marcela which dissect imperfections of the Polish schooling system. Pas...

Over! Done! Saw the back of it! As some of you probably remember, yesterday I sat for the Level III exam. I think I did well. Unlike fe...

A shame economics is not widely taught at schools during the ‘general education’ stage. The high-school curriculum includes a course in ‘ba...

Happy to leave it behind, now an almost two-month long wait to get the result begins. Given the difficulty of the exam and level of my prep...

I am dedicating this post to Michael Wolf , who served as Deputy Head of International Corporates at BRE Bank until late 2009. If this pos...

In practice, I have actually parted company with my school, although in theory I'll do it when I pass my Master's exam. Formally I...

As an unwavering opponent of living in the red I can only acclaim the initiative of Polish financial firms and associations, taken in partne...

…but I fell for it as well. Now I can have a sigh of relief… There was something absurd in it, but the fictional university did a roaring tr...

Like on cue, Gazeta Wyborcz a published today an extensive report on the pitiful state of education on Polish universities. I’ve just skimm...

The public debate in Poland has recently concentrated on the issue of the level of education on Polish universities. Commentators and schola...

If you want to argue it’s a blasphemy or I shouldn’t speak like that about my mother tongue it’s your right. It took me quite long to get to...

Totally out of the blue, almost three weeks ago, on 22 July the Senate Curriculum Commission congregated and… I don’t know if unexpectedly, ...

Following the anecdote posted as a comment to my previous post about Polish mentality I think I can dissociate myself from the fellow blogge...