Education system in the Commonwealth’s Eastern Borderlands in the days of the Commission of National Education (1773–1794)

The article presents the transformation of the education system in the days of the Commission of National Education in the area of the Commonwealth’s south-eastern borderlands, ie the then provinces of Bratslav, Kyiv, Podolia and Volhynia, in the geographical, political and administrative context. Owing to their diversity in social, ethnic and religious terms and their distant location, these regions were particularly neglected in the Polish scholarly literature dealing with education. In 14 secondary schools operating within the Ukrainian and Volhynian Departments, students were being taught first by former Jesuits and Basilians and by secular teachers, graduates from the Crown Main School, thereafter.