Centra Kształcenia Ustawicznego w Polsce 1989-2008

The article took its origin from the last twenty years of working in the Centres of Continuing Education (CCE) as well as from the interviews with centres' directors. The present study is, therefore, an attempt to fulfill the research about CCE. The first part of the article deals with some general information about centres' legal issues and their structures. The second part relates to difficult times of a political transformation, it describes how the centres were able to prosper in that period and how an educational reform was introduced. The analysis is based on some publications about the centres which were available as well as on the quotations from the interviews with the directors. Thanks to their utterances, it is now possible to realize the real problems of CCE as well as to understand the difficulties of these unique schools. Moreover, they can suggest some possible future changes and the directions of CCE development.