Living and working standards in developed countries – including Poland, especially after joining the European Union – require young people educated in higher education institutions to be well-prepared for the effective and satisfying fulfillment of the functions and tasks resulting from the social and professional roles for which they are preparing. For students, this requires achieving a specific level of knowledge and skills in the education process, as well as shaping appropriate attitudes. In the subject literature – following F. Januszkiewicz – one can find the creative role of educational institutions. It should be noted that schools (universities) were created to develop personality (…). From every stage of their school career, the learner should emerge spiritually richer, more versatile in personality, more professionally efficient, more resourceful in life, better equipped with the skills for effective action and achieving intended goals, more reliable, and oriented towards people.
Referring to international agreements, participants of the UNESCO world conference in Paris (1998) in the declaration Higher Education in the 21st Century: Vision and Action (Article 6), postulate expanding the role of higher education so that it strengthens its service role to society, especially activities aimed at eliminating poverty, violence, illiteracy, hunger, environmental degradation, and disease (…)
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Source: Logistyka Magazine 5/2011