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Ranking Szkół Wyższych 2012
Jagiellonian University of Krakow wins in Perspektywy University Ranking 2012

(Warsaw, 15 May 2012) Perspektywy Education Foundation announced the winners of the Perspektywy University Ranking 2012. Jagiellonian University of Krakow, after two years regained the leading position. University of Warsaw was second by a very narrow margin; Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznan took the third place. The Kozminski University was first among Polish private higher education institutions.

Overall, in the Perspektywy University Ranking 2012 as many as 33 criteria were used, grouped into six categories: prestige - with the weight of 25%, academic potential – 15%, academic effectiveness – 30%, studying environment – 10%, internationalization – 15%, and innovation – 5% . To assure quality and transparency, the ranking process has been supervised by the Board chaired by the President of the Polish Academy of Science and composed of former rectors and outstanding public figures.

The Perspektywy Ranking consists, in fact, of several rankings: the main and the most important is the ranking of academic institutions (universities), but there are as well: ranking of private institutions on master level, ranking of private institutions on bachelor (engineer) level, and ranking of state vocational institutions. In total the 2012 ranking evaluated 256 higher education institutions in Poland. The ranking also includes a field ranking covering 15 most popular fields of study such as humanities, social studies, natural science, psychology, medicine, law, engineering and IT.

The results of the Perspektywy University Ranking 2012 were announced in Warsaw in the presence of highest officials of the Ministery of Science and Higher Education, the President of the Polish Academy of Sciences and members of the Polish Parliament. The 13th edition of Perspektywy University Ranking has been published by “Perspektywy” monthly and a leading Polish daily newspaper “Rzeczpospolita”.

All results are listed on www.perspektywy.org (in English) and on www.perspektywy.pl (in Polish).

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Perspektywy Education Foundation
  Perspektywy Education Foundation
   
"Perspektywy” Education Foundation (Fundacja Edukacyjna „Perspektywy”- in Polish) is an independent, non-profit national organization established June 1st, 1998 to promote and support education. The Board of Foundation consists of present and former rectors of Polish universities and other outstanding public figures interested in the development of higher education in Poland.

“Perspektywy” Education Foundation plays an important role on the domestic scene actively promoting quality of education. It organizes public debates and seminars on education, organizes in all 18 academic centers in Poland information campaigns for high school seniors and students on higher education opportunities attracting each year over 200 000 young participants.

For over a decade the “Perspektywy” organizes and publishes national universities ranking, and ranking of the best secondary schools in the country that are recognized as the most  popular and reliable educational rankings in Poland.  

The international activities of the “Perspektywy” Foundation concentrate around promotion of Polish higher education internationally. In this respect “Perspektywy” collaborates closely with the Conference of Rectors of Academic Schools in Poland (CRASP). In 2005 both sides initiated a multi-year programme of promotion of Polish universities abroad called Study in Poland (www.studyinpoland.pl ), and in June 2007 signed a formal agreement thus underlining the importance of internationalization of Polish higher education.

“Perspektywy” Foundation acted as a National Coordinating Structure for the European Higher Education Fairs (EHEF) programme and in this capacity organized presence of over 50 Polish higher education institutions at the Asia Link Symposia and EHEF fairs in India, China and several other countries in South East Asia.

“Perspektywy” Foundation runs the Secretariat of the IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence, an international association has established by universities and ranking organizations from USA, Europe and Asia (www.ireg-observatory.org ).

The Foundation regularly publishes and distributes electronically to all higher education institutions in Poland a Newsletter, providing information on higher education in other countries and on the process of internationalization.
 
“Perspektywy” provides expertise and does research projects for the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Together with the CHE Centre for Higher Education Development (Germany) “Perspektywy” won a tender to develop a concept of a system of monitoring and ranking of tangible and non-tangible resources of the higher education in Poland.

Perspektywy” has been engaged in various international research projects. One of such projects is a Lifelong Learning Programme project: Indicators for Mapping and Profiling Internationalisation (IMPI) – being developed by CHE Consult (Germany), ACA (Belgium), CampusFrance (France), Nuffic (The Netherlands), SIU (Norway) and “Perspektywy”. The IMPI project “will lead to a considerable improvement in accountability and transparency of internationalisation and through new tools an improvement process on internationality will help to enhance the competitiveness of European HEIS”. www.impi-project.eu.  

The “Perspektywy” Foundation is a member of the Academic Cooperation Association (ACA) www.aca-secretariat.be and a member of the Institute of International Education (IIE).