In the Country-specific Recommendations from June 2012, the Council called on the Czech government to make better use of human capital and create innovation-based growth. The Czech Republic was invited to establish a transparent and clearly defined system of quality assessment in higher education and research institutions and also to ensure sustainable funding interlinked with results of quality assessment. These reasons stand behind the recast of the Czech Higher Education Act. At a debate organized by CEBRE – Czech Business Representation to the EU, Confederation of Employers’ and Entrepreneurs’ Associations of the CR, Representation of the European Commission in the Czech Republic and European Parliaments’ Information Office in the Czech Republic on18th December 2012 in Prague.
From left: Daniel Münich, Member of the government’s National Economic Council (NERV), Pavel Hnát, Vice-dean, Faculty of International Relations, University of Economics in Prague, Karel Havlíček, Dean of the Faculty of Economic Studies, University of Finance and Administration and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Association of SME’s of the Czech Republic, Karolína Gondková, Director, Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, Christele Duvieusart, Country Desk Officer for the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Directorate General for Education of the European Commission, and Zdeněk Čech, Economic Counsellor, Representation of the European Commission in the Czech Republic
Debate on Quality of Higher Education: Without Information, there isn´t (Effective) Management Speakers agreed that “The way towards improving the quality of higher education leads primarily through better information about quality of courses, transparency of the evaluation process and improved management of universities and quality of academia staff”. Information on quality of universities and various programmes should be available online on a single webpage. Furthermore, the changing rules should set the ground for creation of profiles of individual universities by increasing their autonomy and accountability, setting up transparent funding rules and reducing administrative burden.
The participants of the debate
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