The plans for financing the tertiary educational sector revealed last week by the Czech government indicate that Czech universities would experience a real decrease of teaching funding per student. This announcement came shortly after presenting the White Paper for Higher Education: with the aim to make tertiary education accessible and open to broad masses of students. Already between 1995 and 2004, the per capita funding decreased by one third, the biggest slump among the OECD countries. At the same time, more money was promised to private universities, making the Czech Republic one of the few European countries providing such support. The government and its main party, ODS (Civic Democratic Party), apparently do not see any contradiction between the White Paper goals and their financing needs. And so ODS could proudly launch one of the pillars for their regional election campaign last week: promoting and opening education for everybody.
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Andrej Nosko .: Energy Policy :. Andrej is a PhD student at department of Political Science at the Central European University in Budapest, researching 'Coping with Energy Import Dependence: Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary'. More information at: http://www.nosko.sk/
Lucia Kurekova .: Migration in EU :. Lucia is a PhD Candidate at the Department of International Relations and European Studies at CEU. In her research she specializes on political economy of post-communist transition and has done research on foreign direct investment in emerging economies, car industry in Visegrad and varieties of capitalism in CEE. Her dissertation investigates labor migration in the enlarged European Union. In the past, Lucia taught at the Comenius University in Bratislava and worked as a teaching assistant at CEU. She has also worked as a consultant for the World Bank.
Katka Svickova .: Knowledge and Skills :. Katka is a PhD student at the Department of International Relations and European Studies at Central European University in Budapest. Her research is focused on the role of skills and skill-creation policies in economic upgrading and development of Central and Eastern European countries.
Zdenek Kudrna .: Banking and Finance :. Zdenek is a PhD student at the Central European University in Budapest and researcher at Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. His research is focused on financial reforms in emerging economies that are guided by international standards. He has been a consultant to the World Bank and UNDP and served as adviser to the Minister of Finance of the Czech Republic.
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