Czech Universities are by no means in want of fresh blood, as the international student population has grown by four times in the last ten years to nearly 38,000, according to the Institute for Information in Education. As the Czech News Agency reported April 1, the institute found that of those foreign students, about one-third [...]

Czech universities have a lot of work to do in terms of providing for the needs of disabled students, and the problems are just beginning to be diagnosed. Only about 1,200 students with handicaps attend Czech universities, according to a study commissioned by the Education Ministry last year, just 0.33 percent of the entire student [...]

Administrators and students are speaking out against the Education Ministry’s plans to introduce a “registration fee,” a precursor to eventual tuition fees, of up to 6,000 Kč per year starting next autumn. Opponents fear the fees will present an unfair hardship for poor students, but the ministry counters that in the face of the government’s [...]

In an interesting commentary in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Bill Wildavsky pointed out how surprising it is that although universities are cutting back on standalone international and study abroad programs, branch universities are cropping up all over the globe.  Prague is home to several such branch universities, and without waxing on about the future [...]