ABSTRACT
This paper presents the results of the Polish policy in education and development of young scientists from World War II until 2012. The article discusses the development of higher education, the goals and tasks of the university under the law, and quantitative development of academic staff in the years 1944 to 2012. This paper shows the main causes of social and political changes affecting higher education. Laws of 1944 to 1989 and their implementation until the meeting of the “Round Table” show that those were seemingly the days of policies that build on the work carried out by the authorities as “happiness and human development.” In 1976, politicians introduced into the Constitution that “the Polish United Workers’ Party (PZPR) is the guiding force of the Nation”; in fact, the current investigation was “who is not with the Party, is against it.”
