Education is too selective

The rapid increase in the number of students in public high schools, which, however, does not match the growth of expenditure on them, may poslednínížit the quality of tertiary education. The OECD experts recommend improve the accreditation criteria based on the results, as is the proportion of students who completed the study, and also the introduction of tuition fees.

commented on the workshop organised by the Faculty of Economics and administration on the occasion of the release of the overview of this section of the report with the words: "students should consider whether it is not good to give the University a small amount, it will help a lot. In addition, it can motivate you to be more demanding and more interested in what they get back from the University.

Added that it is important to establish a system of student loans so as to maintain the equal access to education. And he stressed that for the introduction of tuition fees and the fact that the difference between the income of people with university degrees and those without it, is high in the Czech Republic.

Vice-Rector for research at the Masaryk University in a debate, however, Petr Dvorak pointed out that before the introduction of financial participation of students is the need to learn how to distinguish and appreciate quality. Help to even the accreditation criteria. The criteria according to which the disciplines currently assessed, are mostly focused on the personal and material security and scientific performance, but little seen on the learning objectives, scope and applicability of the competitiveness of the graduates in the labour market. "However, it is not about what criteria should be supplemented by the management in the accreditation, but about how it should look like in the future accreditation process. The forthcoming amendment of the higher education Act is working with the model of institutional accreditation, the school would approve their programs alone, "explains Nantlová.

The reasons for change is a series. The current system, in which individual schools submit their study programmes to assess one Accreditation Commission, is unsustainable. "The Accreditation Commission is overloaded with requests, is not able to be devoted to each field in depth discussion takes place only on the basis of the applications submitted on paper and presents for school administrative burden rather than a real added value to the quality of the study," notes the head of the Center for quality.

The transition to institutional accreditation would mean that the accreditation of the school would be sought as a whole, which would have to demonstrate that it has an effective internal system of quality assurance and monitoring. "At this level would, of course, i already could work better with the criteria which it proposes to the OECD," believes

still only being discussed, the University already developed quality assurance systems. Lead them to worldwide trends, the European recommendations and standards. To verify and improve the quality of the school helps a number of things, from student surveys and surveys of graduates up to the development of strategies. "In 2008 we except these things started to develop a system for the internal evaluation of the study, that is, inter alia, by supplementing it, what in the accreditation system is currently lacking," says Nantlová.

The guest shall be progressively extended to all types of studies currently functioning evaluation. uses before submitting an accreditation request for the given scope. However, it should be gradually extended to other elements and turn right in the internal system of accreditation. based on the self-evaluation of the guarantor field. Plug into it, however, and representatives of the students and the employers who recommend any improvements. A key requirement is the definition of what the students have to learn within the scope, what knowledge and skills to acquire.