The First Slovakian Polytechnic

Abstract

IT is true that, for a country of fifteen million inhabitants, Czechoslovakia is well provided with facilities for higher education. There are four universities, one of which is German, and numerous academies and schools of technology that grant recognized diplomas; but until now there has been no Slovak polytechnic. When the new academic year commences in October, however, this will be remedied by the opening of a polytechnic at Košice, in east Slovakia, to be named after Dr. Milan Stefanik, the Slovak astronomer who became the first Czechoslovak Minister for War. This technical institute will rank after the Comenius University of Bratislava as the second most important educational establishment in the eastern half of the Republic. The president, Dr. E. Beneš, has nominated the principal members of the staff, which will include a number of Slovaks who have graduated in science or technology. Their colleagues will be certain lecturers from the Universities and Polytechnics of Prague and Brno, and the new institute will doubtless soon be able to supply local industrial undertakings with students who have obtained their diplomas at Košice.