Conservative groups have protested against the new subject, which they say is a way to smuggle “corrupting” sex education into schools.
Education
Poland’s education ministry settles with parents who sued over IVF comments in school textbook
The book likened IVF to “human production” or “breeding” and asked “Who will love children produced this way?”
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Half of pupils opt out of Catholic catechism classes in Polish city
New data from Łódź and Częstochowa show further declines in attendance at Catholic catechism classes in schools.
Polish teachers stop providing their own equipment for a week in pay protest
A recipient of Poland’s Teacher of the Year award calculated that she spends thousands of zloty a year from her own pocket.
Polish education minister retracts statement linking “LGBT ideology” to Nazism after legal action
Przemysław Czarnek linked “LGBT ideology” to Nazism and said that “these people are not equal to normal people”.
“Poland will either be Christian or it won’t exist,” says education minister
“We must be counter-revolutionaries” against the “putrid, anti-religious activities” of the West, says Przemysław Czarnek.
Ten Polish scientists and inventors who changed the world
Filip Mazurczak
Many immense contributions to science have been made by Poles – some household names, and others less so.
Number of Ukrainian refugees in Polish schools falls to 185,000
The school system had been prepared for a rise.
Controversial new conservative school textbook to be sold in Polish post offices
The publisher says it will remove a controversial passage seen as referring to IVF, although the author condemns “censorship” and says he would not change a word.
Father of girl born thanks to IVF to sue Polish education minister and author of new textbook
The “History and the Present” textbook compares IVF to human breeding and asks “who will love the children produced in this way?”
Exhibition shows children’s drawings of Ukraine war alongside those from Poland after WWII
“The similarity between historical and contemporary works is striking,” said the exhibition’s curator.
Polish schools ready to accept up to 300,000 additional Ukrainian pupils, says minister
Potential problems, however, may emerge in larger cities, said education minister Przemysław Czarnek.
Polish made official language in Brazilian town founded by Poles
The recognition of Polish in Áurea is a “form of social justice that aims to correct the linguistic violence of the past”.
29-year-old becomes Poland’s youngest ever professor
Mateusz Hołda from the Jagiellonian University’s Medical College heads a world-leading cardiac morphology team.
