On 24 February 2015 Prof. Jerzy Woźnicki signed the cooperation agreement with plagiat.pl. on behalf of PRF and IKS. Strategic partners: PRF and Plagiat.pl will act together for the benefit of the sector of knowledge and higher education in Poland, with special emphasis on quality assurance in higher education, through the enforcement of the provisions cooperation agreement.
The interview with the President of National Council for Science and Higher Education, Prof. Jerzy Woźnicki was emited by Canal I National Television of Ukraine on February 16th 2015 at 22 local time (recorded by TV in Kiev on 31 January 2015).
40-minutes interview emited by TV without shortcuts, translated into ukrainian is also available in polish:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB7Tto4iwW0&index=3&list=PL9aDK_7u4r7dGbKZF4OwHtPxZSrsMKEzN
and ukrainian: http://1tv.com.ua/uk/video/program/persha_studia/2015/02/17/10069
On 28 - 29 January 2015 r. PRF President, Prof. Jerzy Woźnicki participated in the conference " Main challenges to universities in Central and Eastern Europe", which was held in Budapest.
This is the first of a series of annual conferences organized by the Center of International Higher Education Studies (CIHES) at the Corvinus University of Budapest and the Central European University (CEU) in collaboration with partners from the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia as part of the Central European Higher Education Cooperation (CEHEC) project.
On 9 January 2014 during the first Plenary Assembly of General Council of Science and Higher Education Prof. Jerzy Woźnicki has been elected President of the General Council of Science and Higher Education for the term of office 2014-17. Prof. Zbigniew Marciniak and Prof. Lucjan Pawłowski have been elected as V-ce Presidents.
On 10 December 2013 the I Seminar PRF-IKS for doctoral students entitled "The role of higher education in the development of the knowledge society" took place at the Polish Rectors Foundation.
On 27- 29 November 2013 the President of Polish Rectors Foundation, Prof. Jerzy Woźnicki, as the representative of the Conference of Rectors of Academic Schools in Poland visited Kiev and met with the President of the Union of Rectors of Higher Education Institutions of Ukraine, the Rector of Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University, Prof. Leonid Hubersky. The main aim of this meeting was to elaborate the possibility of cooperation between Polish and Ukrainian Conferences of Rectors.
Polish Rectors Foundation together with its strategic partner - Pearson Central & Easter Europe Company has been started the research project entitled "The 5th Level of National Frameworks of Qualification. The Higher Education." The main aim of this project is to organize discussions within academic community about the necessities and the ways to introduce the programs of education appropriate to the descriptors of 5th level of Polish and European Framework of Qualification. As one of the part of this project, together with the analysis of documents and the literature of the subject, there were conducted interviews with the representatives of the authorities of the universities, who were responsible for the program development.
The results of these researches will be presented during the Seminar entitled "Level 5. - the lacking part in the National Frameworks of Qualification", which will be organized by the Polish Rectors Foundation on 12 December 2013 at the Gornoslaska 14 Street. The Seminar is free of charge.
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On 14 November 2013, during the ceremony of the Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences Day, the President of Polish rectors Foundation Prof. Jerzy Woźnicki was awarded Doctor Honoris Causa of these academic school.
From 11 to 13 November 2013 the President of Polish Rectors Foundation, Prof. Jerzy Woźnicki participated in the CRASP Presidium Meeting and Plenary Assembly. The host of the meeting was the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan.
Institute of Knowledge Society in cooperation with the Polish Rectors Foundation invite for a continuation of the nationwide doctoral seminar entitled "The role of higher education in shaping the knowledge society".
In the academic year 2013/14 the leading theme of ISW-FRP seminar for doctoral students will be systemic changes in higher education in Poland.
