System of educating journalists in Poland. Student opinions and expectations

Sławomir Gawroński

English version of the article

The article is a synthetic report of representative empirical research which took place in nine Polish higher education schools, all of which were granted the right to run master’s degree journalism studies. The article presents evaluation of obligatory educating standards for “journalism and social communication”. The evaluation was made by people directly involved – the students of the specialization, and it also includes their expectations and postulates for change. The aim was to create a starting point for a discussion on raising education quality standards in the area of “journalism and social communication” studies all around Poland.

KEYWORDS

journalism studies, educating standards