Czech Education Minister Josef Dobeš (Public Affairs) says the Czech Repubic needs a juvenile detention center to incarcerate teenagers and even children who commit violent crimes. Currently there are no facilities exclusively for housing juvenile offenders in the country, only two prisons for the mentally ill where those convicted of violent crimes who are under [...]

Education Minister Josef Dobeš has accepted a 650 million kč subsidy from the EU’s Operational Programme Research and Development for Innovation fund, which will support research on global climate change and its impact on the day to day lives of people. The 150-member research team will be based in Brno at the Institute of Systems [...]

As The Prague Post reported in early November, the Education Ministry has called for Czech television stations to show more of their foreign programing with subtitles instead of dubbing, in the hopes that it will improve the foreign language skills of Czech viewers, especially the younger ones. Despite the wealth of psycholinguistic  research suggesting subtitled [...]

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 [...]