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WFME has recognized assessment practices and standards for medical schools

According to the Slovak Accreditation Agency for Higher Education (SAAVŠ), the fact that the World Federation for Medical Education (WFME) has recognised the assessment procedures and standards for Slovak medical faculties represents a significant achievement for the higher education system in Slovakia. It has thus confirmed that the quality of medical education in Slovakia also … Continued
24. September 2024

Call of the UPJŠ Rector for recruitment of talented young researchers

The Rector of the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, in accordance with the Rector’s Decision No. 18/2024, which lays down the rules for the support and retention of talented young researchers who have excellently completed their doctoral studies at the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice issues a call for talented young researchers at … Continued
20. September 2024

Learn Slovak! Is your mother tongue other than Slovak?

Learn Slovak! Is your mother tongue other than Slovak? Take advantage of the offer of the Language Training Centre of our Faculty of Arts for foreign students of all faculties of UPJŠ to take courses in the academic year 2024/2025:Slovenský jazyk pre zahraničných študentov UPJŠ 1 (WS) –  language level A1.2  – A2.1 for 2 creditsSlovenský … Continued
18. September 2024

The new academic year at UPJŠ in Košice opened in a new attire

The leadership of the University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik in Košice (UPJŠ) inaugurated the 2024/2025 academic year on Monday, 16 September at 10.30 a.m. in the Auditorium of the UPJŠ Faculty of Medicine in a new look. The gowns were designed for the management of UPJŠ by the Košice fashion designer Louisa Dvorak. The programme … Continued
17. September 2024

UPJŠ opened the UPeJeŠko Preschool

With great joy we have welcomed today the first children in the UPeJeŠko Preschool. The little UPeJeŠkars were warmly welcomed by the Vice-Rector for Undergraduate and Lifelong Learning, university assoc. prof. Ľudmila Elbert, PhD., and the preschool director, Michaela Pavlovská. The preschoolers stepped into their new world in the historic Athena Building, where newly built … Continued
2. September 2024

UPJŠ encourages employees to travel to work in an environmentally friendly way

Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice (UPJŠ) supports alternative forms of transport. Every year, it motivates more than 1,800 employees to participate in the Bike to Work competition, the largest campaign supporting the development of sustainable transport in Slovakia. Employees who took part in the 11th edition of the competition achieved admirable results. Nearly 15,000 … Continued
1. August 2024

Students form USA visited UPJŠ

Director of the Slovak Studies Program (the only one of its kind in North America, where students can study Slovak language and culture) and Vlasta Štofová, PhD., who accompanied seven Slovak Studies students from the University of Pittsburgh. They spent part of their stay in Košice, where they visited UPJŠ and its Faculty of Arts. … Continued
22. July 2024

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