Education for sustainable development is still developing as a broad and comprehensive concept that includes related content on the environment, economy and society. Key issues of sustainable development include, among others, economic issues, production and consumption models, natural resource management, environmental protection, development models, poverty reduction, civic rights, democracy, governance etc. These issues are very diverse and require a holistic approach to teaching. The objective of this article is to diagnose and evaluate the current state of education for sustainable development in Polish higher education institutions, with particular emphasis on the EU in Katowice and to identify the directions of change. This article was written based on the Authors’ many years of scientific and teaching experience. It was also supported by a survey conducted in the year 2020/2021 among the students at the University of Economics in Katowice, which allowed them to identify directions for future educational activities.

This article presents – in the context of the evolution of the Polish public social assistance system – the genesis and shaping of the personnel of this system, with particular emphasis on the place and role of social workers in this system. Attention was drawn to the direction of the evolution of the personnel of the Polish social assistance system: from the honorary activities of social workers in the times of the Second Polish Republic (1918-1939), through a mixed model of full-time social workers supported by a network of socially active local social workers in the times of the Polish People’s Republic, to professional social service, performing the regulated profession of a social worker in modern times. It also indicated how social workers were perceived in different periods of the evolution of the social welfare system and how the regulations of their legal status were assessed

This article presents and evaluates Polish normative solutions regarding the training pension as a benefit from the general social insurance system, intended to support the implementation of the vocational rehabilitation process. The essence and purpose of vocational rehabilitation in terms of international documents and Polish law were presented, and the role assigned to the training pension in the process of implementation of this rehabilitation was indicated. It also shows the shortcomings of the legal provisions in force in Poland and the adopted organizational and financial solutions, which meant that, contrary to expectations, the role of the indicated cash benefit from social insurance in supporting the implementation of the vocational rehabilitation process is negligible.