Development of the Higher Education System
The Czech Republic (CR) is a parliamentary democratic state in Central Europe. It came into existence on 1. 1. 1993 after the division of former Czechoslovakia, which was established in 1918 following the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire after World War I. CR is a relatively small country (78,886 km2) with 10.5 million inhabitants, three-quarters of whom live in urban areas and most of whom are of Czech nationality; other nationalities living in the country include the Slovak (3.1%), Polish (0.6%), German (0.5%), and Romany (0.3%) minorities. The capital and largest city is Prague with over 1.2 million residents. CR is a highly industrialized country with a rich cultural history. It joined NATO in 1999 and the European Union in 2004.
The roots of the development of higher education go back to medieval times when Charles University, the first university in Central Europe, was founded in Prague in 1348 by the Czech King and Holy Roman...
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Act No. 111/1998 Coll. on Higher Education Institutions and on the Amendment and Supplement to Some Other Laws (the Higher Education Law) amended and consolidated [online]. https://portal.gov.cz/app/zakony/zakonPar.jsp?page=0&idBiblio=46613&nr=111~2F1998&rpp=15#local-content (in Czech).
Other data source. http://media.ehea.info/file/Czech_Republic/54/6/National_Report_Czech_Republic_2015_566546.pdf
Statistical Yearbooks on Education (in Czech). http://www.msmt.cz/vzdelavani/skolstvi-v-cr/statistika-skolstvi/rocenky, http://www.msmt.cz/vzdelavani/skolstvi-v-cr/statistika-skolstvi/statisticka-rocenka-skols, students: http://dsia.uiv.cz/vystupy/vu_vs.html
Further Reading
Beneš, Josef, and Vladimír Roskovec. 2009. Higher education in the Czech Republic 2008. Prague: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports.
File, Jon, and Leo Goedegebuure, eds. 2003. Real-time systems. Reflections on higher education in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovenia. Brno: Vutium.
File, Jon, Thomas Weko, Arthur Hauptman, Bente Kristensen, and Sabine Herlitschka. 2006. Country note. Czech Republic. OECD thematic review of tertiary education. Prague: Centre for Higher Education Studies.
Santiago, Paulo, Karine Tremblay, Ester Basri, and Elena Arnal. 2008. Tertiary education for the knowledge society (OECD thematic review of tertiary education: Synthesis report). Paris: OECD.
Šebková, Helena, ed. 2006. Tertiary education in the Czech Republic. Country background report for OECD thematic review of tertiary education. Prague: Centre for Higher Education Studies.
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Roskovec, V., Šebková, H. (2018). Higher Education Systems and Institutions, Czech Republic. In: Encyclopedia of International Higher Education Systems and Institutions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9553-1_366-1
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