Skills & career
Show what you learned: a small skills portfolio
Describe three pieces of work that demonstrate your abilities and help you choose what to learn next.
Skills & career
Practical ideas for better learning — at every age.
Skills & career
Learning after work: a plan that fits real life
Start with one useful outcome, examine your actual week and build a routine without creating a second job.
Skills & career
Akademia PARP launches a leadership course. How can you use it?
Available from 9 September 2026, the resource covers coaching and employee development. Start with one practical learning goal.
Skills & career
Extramural studies and work: training leave, time off and the agreement with your employer
Many adults start part-time studies in October. The Labour Code gives employees improving their qualifications with their employer's consent specific rights — including 21 days of training leave in the final year. The rules and the pitfalls of a loyalty agreement.
Skills & career
Free online courses in Polish: how to choose a course on Navoica and actually finish it
Summer is a good time for a short online course. Poland's NAVOICA platform offers free courses prepared by universities and institutions. What it is, how to choose a course and how not to drop it in week two.
Skills & career
University later in life: how an adult applicant gets through admissions for 2026/2027
University admissions have opened in institutions' IRK systems. What an adult applicant needs, how full-time and part-time studies differ, when tuition is charged and what recognition of prior learning means.
Skills & career
Finishing school years later: external exams and schools for adults
The matura has begun, and many adults think it is too late for their own certificate. It isn't. How external exams before a regional examination board work, who can take them and the deadlines that apply.
Skills & career
Learning with AI at work: using assistants to actually gain new skills
AI assistants can quickly explain a new tool or rule, but it's easy to mistake a ready answer for a skill. How to learn with them, how to check information and what employers must do about AI literacy.
Skills & career
Qualifying vocational courses: how an adult can gain a trade within the school system
Qualifying vocational courses (KKZ) let you gain a vocational qualification without going back to school for years. Who can enrol, how admission works and what passing the vocational exam gives you.
Skills & career
A course funded by the labour office: training, a learning voucher and an education loan under the new act
The labour office can pay for training, an exam or even postgraduate studies — not only for unemployed people but also for those registered as jobseekers. The forms of support under the Labour Market Act and their limits.
Skills & career
The National Training Fund in 2026: who can get a course funded and how to prepare
The KFS is labour-office money for courses, exams and postgraduate studies for people in work. Employers apply. We explain the rules under the new act, the priorities for 2026 and what to do now, before offices open their calls.
Skills & career
A funded paid course: how the Development Services Database works and how to check an offer
Many courses for adults can be co-financed through the Development Services Database run by PARP. Here is the path from choosing a service to settlement, and what to check before you sign up.