Ed Min cancels suspicious Kč 99 mln legal services tender
Minister of Education Josef Dobeš’ (Public Affairs, VV) plan to provide lucrative contracts to five law firms, or consortiums of firms, was met with a barrage of criticism in the media and public...
View ArticleEU blocks at least Kč 1.2 billion due to Education Ministry mismanagement
The Ministry of Education has received notification from the European Commission that it will not pay out at least Kč 1.2 billion allocated to finance Czech projects within the Education for...
View ArticleCzech academics: reform yes, but properly please!
The draft reform of the university system, which the Education Ministry presented to the government in October 2011 after six years of preparations, would see public universities financed in accordance...
View ArticleCzechs faces losing Kč 53 billion in EU funding
Education Minister Josef Dobeš has faced intense criticism in recent weeks over planned reforms of the Czech higher education and an announcement by the European Commission that it is suspending the...
View ArticleBest and brightest: The TOP 20 Czech scientific research institutions
The best-performing scientific institutions in the Czech Republic have long been the Charles University Faculty of Mathematics and Physics (MFF UK), the Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences...
View ArticleSixth head of EU funds at Education Ministry quits post
The director of European funding at the Czech Ministry of Education has tendered her resignation, becoming the sixth person to leave the post under the current Education Minister Josef Dobeš (Public...
View ArticleEx-minister Dobeš returns to Education Ministry as advisor
Having resigned as education minister on March 31, Josef Dobeš (Public Affairs, VV) is returning to the same ministry as an advisor to his former deputy, now acting education minister, Ladislav Němec....
View ArticleUnde malum? A ministerial boondoggle to battle xenophobia
There are matters about which one really cannot joke. And there are also matters from which it is considered highly improper to seek any kind of profit. Among these is surely human dignity, the death...
View ArticleDubbing versus subtitles
Dubbing or subtitles? The leading daily Mladá fronta Dnes recently examined the phenomenon of dubbing, which the Czechs have a special fondness for. They even have the František Filipovský Prize, named...
View ArticleCzech scientists, get to know this American!
Czech scientists are increasingly on the American radar: domestic research institutions now have a right to apply for grants awarded by US defense agencies, a Czech-American agreement on scientific...
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