The cost of education in the Czech Republic has more than doubled since 2000, according to figures from the Czech Statistical Office (ČSU). Czech families spent more than 6 billion Kč on education ten years ago, and today that number is closer to 14 billion Kč. Though not the single most exacting period on parents’ [...]

Czech Education Minister Josef Dobeš (Public Affairs party, or VV) said last week that new decrees to promote Roma inclusion in public schools will be ready for implementation by January, no doubt in response to a recent slew of criticism from NGOs and other groups advocating Roma who say the plodding pace of reform implementation [...]

Sex is a hot topic for Czech parents and teachers these days, and it’s the way the subject is treated at school that’s getting everyone’s blood boiling. As Klára Jiřičná reported in The Prague Post Aug. 25, The Education Ministry recently retracted their guide for sex education in public schools. The guide was introduced  last [...]