the dismantling of the socialist block and individual countries rapidly merging into the global economy and contributing to the world’s economic growth.
Poland is one such country, now a full time member (since May 2004) of the European Union. After leaving behind its communist past, it has quite rapidly arisen from behind the “iron curtain” to become one of the advanced nations of Europe and the world too. A fact, people do not know much about in our parts of the world. The European Parliament (consisting of representatives of the existing EU members) took this decision after keeping a thorough watch on its economic transformation, development and growth and its ability to adapt to new changing reality.

Poland traditionally has been a centre for learning. The success of Polish academics today has its roots in the past. The best evidence of this comes from the large numbers of foreign researchers working in Polish institutions of higher education, and their Polish counterparts who lecture abroad. If you go through the list of professors and lecturers of the World famous colleges and universities you will be surprised to find a large number of Polish surnames. These professors and lecturers graduated from some of the prestigious Polish colleges, which deprived of good marketing, advertising and were closed for commercial Education purposes during the communist era.

The library catalogue of the Cathedral Chapter of Cracow dating back to 1110 shows that already in the early twelfth century Polish intellectuals had access to the European literature of that period - including the Classics like Ovid, Terence, Statius and Sallust. Polish scholarship has brought many academic achievements and discoveries of global importance.

Through ages Poland has given to the world-renowned astronomers (Copernicus), physicists (Nobel Laureates Marie Curie, Leopold Infield.), mathematicians (Rejewski, Różycki, and Zygalsk worked on Cryptography and Stanisław Ulam devised the famous Monte Carlo method), chemists (Nobel Laureate Walter Kohn), biologists and doctors, etc. It gave to the world 3 Nobel laureates in the two decades between 1980 and 2000. World famous Cracow University, established in 1364 is today one of the members of the Coimbra group of European Universities. It may even surprise you that “Fahrenheit’, the unit of temperature that we so frequently use in our science numericals comes from Gabriel Fahrenheit, a famous 18th century Polish scientist. There are many other interesting facts to be found at /www.poland.gov.pl and the list is almost unending.

I am sure that not many of you are aware of the fact that while the Indian youth makes a beeline for cozier destinations in the US, UK, Europe or Australia, students from the US head for Polish educational institutions that promise not only qualitatively equally good higher education in English, but also at a fraction of the cost of what these western institutions offer. Polish colleges provide not only an opportunity for excellent Education but also are inexpensive compared to other European, American, Australian, New Zeeland or Singapore colleges. Why should a student pay bags full of money for the tuitions and then work for 20 hrs a week to make the living, when one can devote all energy on education without working part time for the money spent on paying just the tuition fees in other countries.

For these reasons more and more Britt, Germans, Norwegians, Italians, French, Americans etc. are coming to Poland for higher studies. This is big enough an attraction for the students coming from the west to study in this far off country, a new entrant to EU – Poland.

"Education in Poland" is a small step in this direction to facilitate students wishing to study abroad and become good specialists in their respective fields. As it is only the first step, we are currently targeting only a little number of institutes/ Universities that provide education in the fields of Business Management, Administration and Marketing (BBA, MBA courses), Hotel Management and a whole range of computer courses ranging from BCA, MCA, M.Sc in Computer Sciences to Networking, Robotics, etc. We are planning on expanding Universities for other disciplines and a wider number of colleges.