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Prague Monitor / Czech News in English > Pavel Ripka

Pavel Ripka

The trouble with universities – Part II

2009-04-29
By: Barbara Bindasova
On: April 29, 2009
In: Opinion
Tagged: Hospodářské noviny, MonitorPlus, Pavel Ripka

7)The trouble with accreditation: The accreditation process turned into bureaucratic frenzy, many accreditations are based on “flying professors”. Accreditation committee, however, plays a positive role as a watchdog of university education quality. Above all, it is necessary to amend unsatisfactory ministerial regulation and increase authority of the accreditation committee so that it could grant accreditation to high-quality institutions for an indefinite period of time and also to a wider range of subjects. It would be the best, though, to keep the same strict type of accreditations for the new or lower-quality institutions. 8) Incompetence and cumbersomeness of university senates: Universities govern these elected, self-governing bodies and this system enabled to gain and preserve academic freedom and universities’ independence of politicalContinue Reading

The trouble with universities – Part I

2009-04-28
By: Petra Pokorna
On: April 28, 2009
In: Opinion
Tagged: Hospodářské noviny, MonitorPlus, Pavel Ripka

Post-secondary education is one of the most effective and efficient sectors of the Czech economy. On global scale the ratio of its performance to price is highly above-average. Czech universities produce graduates of comparable quality for fraction of the price in comparison with the German or Austrian competition. If there is a sector that works extraordinarily well, it is debatable whether one should talk about its fundamental reform. It is therefore good that the representatives of post-secondary schools managed to halt the going armoured train of reforms of tertiary education. Association with the fall of the cabinet is purely accidental. Minister Liška would probably be forced to halt the speeded reform in any case. The team that prepared the reformContinue Reading

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