Local Implementation of the Bologna Reforms Poland

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Local Implementation of the Bologna Reforms
Poland

• Ryszard Naskrecki
• Faculty of Physics
• Adam Mickiewicz University
• Poznan, Poland

Physics after Bologna EUPENs 11th General Forum
EGF 2009, Vilnius 10-13.09.2009
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Poland in Bologna Process

• 1999 - Poland was one of the 29 Bologna
  Declaration signatory countries.
• The Bologna Declaration was not promoted and
  implementing and was not widely known in the
  Polish academic community.
• 2003 - Poland started serious work on the Bologna
  Process implementation!

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Poland in Bologna Processnew aspect

• 2005 new Higher Education Law and the relevant
  ministerial implementing regulations - legal
  basis for implementation of the Bologna Process.

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Educational system in Poland

• Three-stage system
• 6-year elementary school,
• 3-year gymnasium (gimnazjum) - school which is
  obligatory for all the youths,
• 3-year (profiled) secondary schools (liceum,
  technikum), where about 80 of young people are
  provided with education.
• The other 20 is to attend 2 - year vocational
  school to be train for different jobs.

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Foreign languages in the schools

• Students in Polish schools typically learn one or
  two foreign languages at schools.
• Generally, in 2005/06 the most popular obligatory
  foreign languages in Polish schools were
• English 67.9
• German 33.3
• French 13.3
• Spanish 10.2
• Russian 6.1h
• Italian 4.3
• Latin 0.6
• Others 0.1

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Tertiary education in Poland

• In 1938 it was together 47,700 students in
  Poland.
• In 1989 the number of tertiary students grew to
  378,000.
• In 2005 Poland has 130 public HEIs and 315
  non-public HEIs, with a total number of 1,900,000
  students, including 1,300,000 at public HEIs and
  600,000 at non-public HEIs
• In 2009 - the number of tertiary students is
  1,700,000.

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Some numbers

• The total number of academic staff 55,000
• Titular professors 7,750
• Dr hab. and dr 9,600 37,500
• The total number of foreign students is 12,000.
• The total number of doctoral students is 32,000

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Diploma supplement

• Poland ratified the Lisbon Recognition
  Convention on 17 March 2004 which entered into
  force on 1 May 2004.
• Since 1 January 2005 the Diploma Supplement has
  been issued on request to all graduates and since
  1 September 2005 automatically to all graduates,
  in Polish. An additional copy of the DS is issued
  on request in a widely spoken EU language.

The Convention on the Recognition of
Qualifications concerning Higher Education in the
European Region developed by Council of Europe
and UNESCO. 36 of 45 members of Bologna process
have signed Lisbon Convention. This document
focuses on recognition of qualifications
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Quality assurance

• The State Accreditation Committee (SAC), state
  quality assurance agency was established in 2002.
  
• The quality assessment is conducted by SAC on an
  obligatory and non-paid basis for all HEIs
  (public and non-public).
• SACs opinions and resolutions are legally
  binding important for the financial support.
• Universities Accreditation Commission
• not obligatory but very prestigious!

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Three-cycle system

• Being introduced on a voluntary basis up till
  academic year 2006/2007, and it will was
  introduced in all higher education institutions
  on a compulsory basis as of 1 October 2007 (with
  some delay for 9 fields).
• There are 6 fields of study, which are
  exclusively Masters studies (long cycle)
• law, pharmacy, psychology, veterinary medicine,
  medicine and medicine and dentistry

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ECTS European Credit Transfer and Accumulation
System
3th cycle study 4 years ECTS ??
Postgraduate cycle
Graduate cycle
Long cycle study 5-6 years 300-360 ECTS
2nd cycle Study 2 years 120 ECTS
Undergraduate cycle
Diploma type master
1st cycle Study 3 years 180 ECTS
Law, medicine
I II 300 ECTS
Diploma type bachelor
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Student and staff mobility in the framework of
the SOCRATES-Erasmus Programme
Academic year Number of outward student flows Number of inward student flows Number of outward/invard academic staff flows
1998/99 1426 220 -
1999/00 2813 466 -
2000/01 3691 614 678/488
2001/02 4322 750 800/573
2002/03 5419 996 947/749
2003/04 6278 1459 1394/1026
2004/05 8390 2332 1741/1440
2005/06 9974 gt 4000 2255/1940
Most Polish students go to study in Germany,
France, Spain, Italy and UK and students coming
to study in Poland are mostly form Germany,
France and Spain.
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Flexibility of studies
Uczelnia A
Uczelnia B
Vertical mobility between 1st and the 2nd cycle
is possible to change field of study (with some
limitations).
Horizontal mobility during 1st and the 2nd
cycle is possible to change university (in Poland
and abroad)
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Degrees awarded to graduates of HEI

• Licencjat - Polish equivalent of a Bachelor of
  Arts degree or Bachelor of Science degree,
  obtained upon completion of first-cycle programs
  which last 3 or 3.5 years
• Inzynier - Polish equivalent of the title of
  Engineer - awarded to graduates of first-cycle
  programs in engineering and technology.
• Magister - the Polish equivalent of Master's
  degree- awarded upon completion of 4- to 6-year
  Masters degree programs offered in one cycle or
  upon completion of 1.5- to 2-year second-cycle
  Masters degree programs, undertaken by those who
  have completed a first-cycle program and obtained
  the degree of licencjat or inzynier.

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The third cycle

• The third cycle doctoral studies are accessible
  to those, who hold a degree of magister or an
  equivalent degree.
• Those are 4-years studies but in some
  circumstances may be shortened or extended (in
  physics possible 5-years).

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Academic degrees and titles conferred between
1991-2002
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Field of study

• Study in a HEI shall be provided within fields of
  study.
• Field of study ? scientific discipline
• astronomy, biology, chemistry, mathematics,
  physics.
• recently acoustic, biophysics, biotechnology
• Student shall be enrolled on a degree programme
  in a specific field of study not later than after
  the end of the first academic year.

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Structure of the study
field of study a distinct area of study student
declaration during 1st year of study.
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Field of study Physics1st cycle study
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Subject benchmark statementstime-sharing for 1st
level study
General contents Fundamentalcontents Field of study contents Specialized contents
10 20 15 55
common for all fields of studies common for the group fields of studies peculiar to the given field of study peculiar to the given specialization
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Subject benchmark statementstime-sharing for 2nd
level study
Fundamentalcontents Field of study contents Specialized contents
10 25 65
common for the group fields of studies peculiar to the given field of study peculiar to the given specialization
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Field of study Physics1st cycle study

• The first cycle of study takes no less than 6
  semesters, the number of hours of lectures and
  classes should not be lower than 2000, while the
  ECTS score should not be lower than 180.
• Group of basic contents, min. 180 h, 10 ECTS
• IT, English, Humanistic contents, Protection of
  intellectual property
• Group of fundamental contents, 360 h, 45 ECTS
  score
• Mathematics, 150 h
• Physics, 180 h
• Astronomy, 30 h
• Group of the field of study contents, 300 h, 35
  ECTS score
• Electrodynamics
• Fundamentals of quantum physics
• Physical Laboratory
• Classical and relativistic mechanics
• Thermodynamics and statistical physics
• Group of specialization contents, gt 1160 h, 90
  ECTS score

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Field of study Physics2nd cycle study

• The second cycle ends with getting a degree of
  Master of Science (Magister). The second cycle of
  study takes no less than 4 semesters, the number
  of hours of lectures and classes should not be
  lower than 1000, while the ECTS score should not
  be lower than 120.
• Group of fundamental contents, 90 h, 10 ECTS
  score
• Physical Laboratory 90 h
• Group of the field of study contents, 240 h, 30
  ECTS score
• Theoretical physics
• Physics of condensed phase
• Quantum physics
• Group of specialization contents, gt 670 h, 80ECTS
  score

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Future challenges

• New fields of study related to Physics
• Acoustic (only in Poznan)
• Sound Engineering
• Prosthetics of hearing
• Biophysics (only in Poznan and Cracow)
• Technical Physics
• Biomedical engineering
• Nanoscience (only in Cracow)

Macro-field of study an area of study combining
fields of study which have similar degree
programme requirements Interdisciplinary
programme a degree programme provided jointly in
various fields of study by one or more higher
education institutions
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Structure of the study
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How we can createthe new academic field?
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Optometry is not new!

• Optometry as a field of study/specialization
• US, UK, . .
• Optometry as a scientific activity (optometric
  science) US, UK, .
• binocular vision and accommodative problems,
  vision therapy.
• New optical materials.
• Optometry as a professional activity many
  countries
• General practice (private practitioners)
• Consulting in Ophthalmic industry

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Why choose Optometry in AMU?

• Long scientific tradition
• Optics, Photophysics,
• Collaboration
• with Medical University in Poznan
• with provincial hospital
• Collaboration with ophthalmic industry
• JZO
• Essilor
• CibaVision

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Laboratory experience

• Optics laboratory
• Laboratory of refraction
• Laboratory of ocular technology
• Laboratory of contact lenses

Total value of the laboratory equipment 1 M
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New opportunities

• EU founds
• Infrastructural founds for Poland
• 35 mln for interdisciplinary Master and Ph.D.
  in Poznan
• 6 Operational Programmes
• including Human Capital OP
• 3 mln for new skills of graduates
• 7FP

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