After a generation of dismissing vocational training and pushing toward knowledge-based economies of university graduates, education policy makers in Europe and the United states are starting to lament the lost era of master and apprentice. Over-crowded universities and a lack of skilled craftsmen in the the Czech Republic prompted Education Minister Josef Dobeš to call [...]

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 [...]