DOLNOSLASKIE VOIVODSHIP - Education, health and culture
More than 495 thousand pupils attended all types of schools for children and young people (primary, lower secondary, vocational secondary and secondary schools) as well as post-secondary schools in the 2001/02 school year. The net enrolment rate was lower in the voivodship than in the country for basic vocational schools (19.4% in the voivodship and 21.7% in the country) and general secondary schools (35.8% against 36.1% in the country), but higher in the case of vocational secondary schools (34.5% and 33.3% respectively) as well as post-secondary schools (8.9% and 6.8%). In terms of the number of post-secondary schools and the enrolment rate for this type of school, the Dolnoslaskie Voivodship ranks second in the country (behind Slaskie Voivodship).
Lower Silesia is also a leading academic centre, with 23 higher education institutions, of which 17 are located in Wroclaw, with others located in Jelenia Góra, Legnica, Walbrzych and Swidnica. Branches of Wroclaw schools are also located in these cities. In the 2001/02 academic year, 143.3 thousand students attended all types of schools.
This region has rich and diverse deposits of mineral and curative waters, allowing numerous health resort treatment facilities to operate. Lower Silesia has 11 health resorts: Kudowa Zdrój, Ladek Zdrój, Polanica Zdrój, Duszniki Zdrój, Szczawno Zdrój, Cieplice Zdrój, Dlugopole Zdrój, Swieradów Zdrój, Kowary, Jedlina Zdrój, and Przerzeczyn Zdrój. Moreover, there are 66 health resort treatment facilities, including 45 hospitals and health resort sanatoria, 2 rehabilitation sanatoria and 19 natural treatment facilities.
The voivodship has 74 general hospitals (10% of the hospitals in the country), with a total of 15.4 thousand beds. Out-patient health care is rendered by 376 out-patient departments, 149 health centres and 417 medical practices.
The Dolnoslaskie Voivodship is a leading centre of culture in the country. Numerous cultural facilities are located in the region, including an opera, an operetta and philharmonic hall in Wroclaw, philharmonic halls in Walbrzych and Jelenia Góra, theatres and museums as well as several dozens cinemas and several hundred libraries.
Theatre and music are among the areas of culture that Lower Silesia can boast. In terms of the number of theatres and music institutions, Lower Silesia ranks third in the country (following Mazowieckie and Slaskie voivodships). In 2001, 4.6 thousand performances and concerts were held in theatres and music institutions, attended by a total audience of 747.9 thousand Numerous festivals are organised in the region, including the Festival of Polish Modern Arts, Actors' Song Festival, Street Theatre Festival (in which not only Polish troupes participate, but foreign as well), Jerzy Grotowski Centre for Creative Research.
Among cultural events renown not only in Poland but abroad as well are music festivals: International Chopin Festival in Duszniki Zdrój, Vratislavia Cantans International Festival of Art and Music.
Lower Silesia is home to 43 museums, among the most prestigious of which are the National Museum in Wroclaw and the Raclawicka Panorama and Ethnographic Museum, which are a part of it. During 2001, 1083 thousand people visited museums in the region.
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