The darkest parts of Czech history can be more didactic, according to Jaroslav Pinkas of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů). At a seminar on the crimes of Bolshevism organized by the Committe on Security of the Czech Senate held April 14, Pinkas told the crowd that the [...]
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’ [...]
The National Economic Council (NERV) has recommended some educational reforms this month that the government advisory body says will strengthen the Czech economy. One of the more controversial suggestions has to do with educational requirements for teachers themselves. As deník.cz reported earlier this week, NERV says masters degrees in education are not necessary for all [...]
While here in the capital education functionaries are fighting over integration policy and nationalist aid appointments, there have been a few refreshing pieces of education news to come out of the second city lately. The number of students from socially excluded communities in Brno (mostly Roma) applying to high schools and apprenticeship programs is on [...]
Places at elite business schools of Harvard and LBS caliber are coveted and the competition fierce, mostly due to the promise of a sizable paycheck upon graduation, but the post-crisis job market has been a reality check even for graduates who were previously among the most aggressively recruited. This is at least part of the [...]
Europe 2020, the European Commission’s 10-year strategy for resuscitating the European economy, aspires to several ambitious but very worthy goals related to employment, regional development and labor mobility and marketability. As you might imagine, education investments and (one would hope) the resulting improvements figure heavily in the strategy. Here’s a look at some of the [...]
Some high-level government officials will be paying a visit to Roma families in three north Bohemian cities this afternoon (link in English here) to talk to parents about their children’s truancy and why it affects their social benefits. Labor and Social Affairs Minister Jaromír Drábek and Education Minister Josef Dobeš, from TOP 09 and VV, [...]
Florida International University professor and New York Times contributor Stanley Fish recently drummed up a lot of comment traffic on the paper’s site with an opinion piece he wrote describing plagiarism as more of a professional discourtesy rather than a weighty moral offense. Plagiarism, cheating and academic dishonesty of all shapes and sizes are inveterate [...]