Maria Grzegorzewska Academy of Special Education in Warsaw

Voivodeship: mazowieckie

City: Warszawa

Description:

The Maria Grzegorzewska Academy of Special Pedagogy is a public pedagogical university with the longest tradition in Poland - over 95 years. The State Institute of Special Pedagogy (PIPS) was founded on June 12, 1922, as a result of the merger of the Seminar of Special Pedagogy (established by Maria Grzegorzewska on the model of the International Pedagogical Faculties in Brussels, initially as an annual Course of Special Pedagogy, and in 1920/21 as an annual Seminar) and the Phonetic Institute, headed by Titus Benni. Organizationally, PIPS was subordinate to the Ministry of Religious Denominations and Public Enlightenment of the Republic (MWRiOP).

The APS provides an opportunity to acquire professions such as teacher-educator, kindergarten teacher, early childhood teacher, art teacher, computer science teacher, special educator, pedagogical therapist, speech therapist, social worker, sociologist, psychologist, vocational counselor, among others.

The university currently has nearly 4,000 students, 91.2 percent of whom are women, and 1.5 percent are foreigners.

The university building last year saw 1,043 graduates leave. In the 2023/2024 academic year, 1,378 male and female students began their studies, including 31 foreigners. 

The university employs 314 academics, 76.8 percent of whom are women. 

The university's graduates include Iwona Banach (née Pizoń), a writer and translator of fiction, Elżbieta Jakubiak (née Dąbrowska), a politician, minister of sports and tourism in Jarosław Kaczyński's government, from 2005 to 2007 head of the Cabinet of the President of the Republic of Poland and secretary of state in the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland, deputy to the Sejm for the sixth term, or Paulina Krupińska-Karpiel, a model, Miss Polonia 2012 and TV presenter.