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Sharp rise in number of nursery places available

The number of places available in nurseries and after-school clubs has risen by 21 percent. Kalbar/TFN

Increase comes as more money is put into the Maluch+ programme aimed at increasing the capacity of the country’s nurseries.

School turns traditional teaching on its head by using Minecraft to help pupils learn English

Under the motto ‘If you want to teach them enter their world’, the specifically designed Disney-themed maps based on The Lion King, Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland have been developed to engage the students and aid their learning.

By noon, 48.5 pct of schools on strike - Education Ministry

By Monday noon, 48.5 percent of schools and kindergartens in Poland were taking part in the strike proclaimed by the Polish Teachers' Union (ZNP) and the Trade Unions' Forum (FZZ), the deputy Education Minister, Maciej Kopeć, announced.

Learn a language if you want to get ahead and earn more, study shows

New report says a knowledge of languages is good for career prospects, but some languages are better than others.

Ghosts, corpses, stunning frescoes and a heavenly choir – Poland’s oldest school has them all

Dating back to the 12th century, the oldest school in Poland doesn’t disappoint those expecting the country’s version of Harry Potter’s Hogwarts. Ghosts are alleged to stalk the corridors, pupils share the grounds with over 600 corpses, and its alumni include leaders, presidents and saints. TFN’s Stuart Dowell went to find out more.

Dilapidated old factory transformed into stunning new school

Architects invited primary school pupils to send in sketches of what they wanted their school to look like and merged the ideas with their design to build a ‘dream’ school for kids.  

Wood you believe it! Teachers open school – in a forest

The school says that the idea behind having classes in the forest is to combat nature deficit. The theory is that many of today’s child health problems like allergies, obesity, depression and ADHD derive from children having a lack of contact with nature.

Two 14-year-old Polish students win European Money Quiz

Emilian Ptak and Paweł Rozbejko, two 14-year-olds from a primary school in Głogów (southwestern Poland), became the first-ever European Money Quiz champions in Brussels.

Poland offers aid to Polish school beginners, graduates in Lithuania

Around 1,000 first-grade pupils and this year's graduates of Polish-language schools in Lithuania have received financial assistance from Poland. School beginners received vouchers totaling nearly EUR 100 and graduates - over EUR 50.

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Song and dance group revives unique traditions of Poland’s Lemko culture

Historically from the Beskid and Pieniny highlands around Beskid Sądecki, Beskid Niski and parts of the Pienin mountains, the Lemkos were displaced from their native lands in 1947 and resettled in Western Poland as part of ‘Operation Vistula’, the Communist authority’s forced resettlement of several Polish minorities from the south-east of post-war Poland to the reclaimed territories in the west of the country.

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‘I grew up in death camp house’: Extraordinary story of women born in Auschwitz and who has lived there ever since

Once asked to draw the view from her bedroom window for homework, Anna Odi couldn’t decide whether to draw the crematorium or the gallows where Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess was executed. She told TFN: “I think I am a hostage to the stories of people who experienced this hell. I am continuing what my parents started, to be a witness. Like my parents, I owe it to the victims.”

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