MANAGEMENT OF EDUCATIONAL PROCESS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF THE THIRD AGE IN POLAND

Introduction. The scientific interest is made by experience of organization of adult education in different countries of the world, in particular the Republic of Poland. Adult education is adopted as the phenomenon of the XXI century. Like other European countries, Polish society gets older each time in more rapid rate, taking it into account in the article the activity of universities of the third age is analysed, which are the important components of adult education development in the country. Purpose. In the article the management of educational process at the universities of the third age is analysed. Results. The important elements of formation of effective economic mechanisms of education modernization and development which provide new principles and system of field financing actually must become: the system of the state educational crediting; the development of adult education for budgetary facilities of all levels; the development of libraries and informative resources; direction of money to the in-plant teachers' training; providing of having a special purpose use of money, foreseen on the development of adult education of different levels; stimulation of establishments, which invest in adult education; successive providing of transparency of educational establishments' financial activity, the increase of their financial and economic responsibility; transparency in the financial providing of adult education; creation of conditions for bringing in of additional money in educational establishments; the expansion on the base of educational establishments of additional requiring payment educational services for population; stimulation of innovative educational processes; creation on the base of educational establishments cultural and educational, educational, training centers. Conclusion. For organization of effective adults' educational process in Poland active methods of education are applied. To the most famous method which activates adults' educational process in Poland, belongs the method of discussion, in which row techniques enter. In the universities of the third age the most popular educational techniques are: analysis of pros and cons (debates), metaplan, «six hats», poker of criteria, discussion on marks, tree of making decision, analysis of SWOT, staging.