NIK report into night schools reveals exaggerated fees and low standards

The Supreme Board of Inspection (NIK) has severely criticized public universities saying that night school and part-time studies are run to make a profit and charge too high fees for the most popular subjects. NIK also found that these courses were, on the whole badly run, with lower standards set, both in terms of teaching and exam passes, as compared to full-time courses. "The results of the inspection have surpassed even our worst expectations," said NIK's deputy president Zbigniew Wesolowski. The Supreme Board of Inspection accused the schools of not applying to the rules of the Constitutional Tribunal, which state that fees may not exceed the necessary costs born by universities which are required to run the courses. "The main reason for this situation is that the government does not give enough money to run universities properly, since it does not have it," said Deputy Education Minister Tomasz Goban-Klas. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A4) A.Z.