There are twenty public kindergartens, including one integrating healthy and handicapped children, one exclusively for handicapped children and one for children with special nutritional requirements. Furthermore, there are six nonpublic kindergartens of which four receive financial support from the multicipality.
All kindergartens have to comply with a syllabus set by the Ministry of Education. Each of them is equipped with teaching aids to ensure an allround development of the children. At the same time, on parents' request, English classes, corrective exercise sessions, as well as music and dance lessons take place. All classes are conducted by staff with appropriate qualifications. The kindergartens are an excellent solution to working parents' problems. A programme of psychological aid for young children and their parents is under way in Ursynów. Its aim is to explain any irregularities in the behaviour of children up to the age of seven and help in correcting them.
The presence of fifteen public and ten non-public elementary schools, as well as six public and nine non-public grammar schools makes possible the proper implementation of the syllabi.
Some of the elementary public schools have integrated classes and/or music classes. There's also a grammar-school for children requiring physiotherapy. Classes in the public schools take place in well-equipped classrooms which are regularly supplied with new teaching aids.
The majority of schools have introduced various forms of innovation, such as extended mathematics and information studies, cultural studies and history syllabi or foreign language courses. Physical education classes can be held in the form of dance, fencing, basketball or swimming lessons. The public grammar-schools in Ursynów participate in the "Internet Access for Each Grammar-School" programme.
Good learning conditions and an atmosphere conducive to proper development make it possible for Ursynów's students to get increasingly good results in contests and competitions held by the schools. The students in Ursynów can choose from four public and ten non-public secondary schools. The IVth Non-Public Secondary School was assessed by the University of Warsaw as offering its students high chances of future acceptance at university, while the Lajos Kossuth Secondary School cooperates with the Hungarian Embassy and holds courses of Hungarian.
For those wanting to give their children an English education based on the latest teaching methods and syllabi, the American School offering education at an elementary level is a good solution. All its staff are professional teachers, educated in the USA. The school has been approved by the Ministry of Education and fulfils all Polish and American requirements. Its students represent twenty-five different nationalities.
In September 1997 a "school of the future" was opened in Ursynów. It is run by the "Family Alliance" Association (Stowarzyszenie "Przymierze Rodzin"), and the idea behind its syllabus is to prepare young Poles for the life in a united Europe.
Ursynów is also home to the headquarters of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland's oldest and biggest farming academy. It has produced fifty thousand graduates since the end of the war and its staff numbers 1 100 employees. Its research and educational work covers a whole range of agricultural and forestry studies. The school currently has 11 departments and the option of interdepartmental studies has recently been made available.
The syllabi and the number of specializations change according to current market demand. In recent years, for instance, departments such as the International Food Industry Administration and Marketing Institute, the Banking Department, the Commodity Markets Department, and the Real Estate Survey Department were set up, while the postgraduate programmes offer was considerably extended. The SGGW is the capital's important academic centre.
There are plans to transform it into a University of Southern Warsaw, thus extending the number of subjects available by fields such as sociology and agrotourism. The school regularly holds a number of events which are open to the general public, such as exhibitions and fairs of various kinds. Monthly lectures on healthy nutrition are also held and various concerts are organised. The above usually take place in the elegant Kryształowa Assembly Hall at 166, Nowoursynowska Street.
October 1996 marked the opening of the Computer Science and Economics College, a non-public school, included in the Ministry of Education register, offering a three-year trade education. The syllabus comprises subjects which are taught (as part of a "syllabus minimum") at all economic schools. What makes it stand out from other schools of this kind is the emphasis laid on the application of computer science to economics.
The college has a non-departmental structure; students can choose from three specializations: foreign trade, money and stock markets and business insurance. Its graduates receive a bachelor's degree. The staff, currently numbering ninety-one, have all gained their experience at renowned public universities. Classes are conducted by highly qualified lecturers of institutions such as the Warsaw School of Economics, the University of Warsaw, the Warsaw University of Technology and the Military University of Technology. Moreover, the college employs high class specialists from financial, banking, insurance and foreign trade institutions, as well as IT and telecommunications companies. |
