In recent years, an important effort has been made in Poland for reconstructing chemical curricula and chemical education, since the rapid development of science, especially of chemistry, in the economy and everyday life, has made teaching very difficult. The educational system has been reorganized in Poland three times since 1945. There is a Ministry of Education Council composed of professors of Universities, Technical Universities and other Schools of University, like the Academy of Medicine, Academy of Agriculture and so on. Working commissions prepare programmes of teaching at university level, for example, a Commission for Chemistry, Commission for Physics, for Mathematics, for Biology, for different Technical Sciences etc. I would like to make comments about the new programme with some reference to the methods of teaching introduced at my University recently. I must add that this new programme is of an experimental character and must be subjected, in the near future, to some criticism and correction. We have three degrees in science; Master of Chemistry, Doctor of Chemical Sciences, and Doctor after 'Habilitation' (Doctor Habilitatus)— recently it was Dozent Habilitatus. The five-year study of chemistry at University is unified. It ends with the Master of Chemistry degree. The first three years give general background in mathematics, physics and chemistry. The next three years are more specialized ones. In the course of the first three semesters, lectures on general and inorganic chemistry are given. The idea is to give a general background of chemistry with some elements of the theory of bonding, thermodynamics and structure of chemical compounds. These general aspects are illustrated by considering properties and compounds of the main-groups and of sub-group elements. For the better knowledge and understanding by students of these aspects, the seminars on the above topics are provided from the beginning of the first year of study. For seminar work students are divided into groups, with no more than 25 students in one group. The students prepare papers from the literature. In that way they learn from the beginning how to do selfsustaining individual work and search through the literature. I should like to add that the students really appreciate this type of work and develop enthusiasm for chemistry. At my University we introduced this type of seminar eight years ago, and the results are quite satisfactory now. At the same time there are also laboratory experiments from general chemistry for better understanding of the basic principles, chemical processes, properties of matter and syntheses of chemical compounds.