As higher education and education at vyšší odborné školy are
regulated by different Acts and regulations.
Trtiary professional education
Educational guidance for vyšší odborné
školy is organised in a similar way to that for střední školy.
Practical preparation is part of education at vyšší odborné školy and takes the
form of practical education at school or of work practice at the workplaces of
persons or organisations authorised to carry out activities relating to the
given area of education which have entered into an agreement with the relevant
school on the content and scope of in-service professional practice and
conditions under which the professional practice shall be carried out.
The employers require graduates of vyšší odborné školy to possess skills in
computer technologies, are willing to learn new things and possess managerial
abilities. With respect to key competences, the priority is laid on foreign
language skills.
There is a direct relation between the level of education achieved and success
on the labour market. In terms of their success rate, graduates of vyšší
odborné školy are ranked right behind graduates of vysoké školy (the only exception being graduates
of gymnázia, whose success
rate on the labour market is comparable to that of graduates of vysoké školy). Successful
graduates on the labour market include those who studied medical disciplines,
law and public administration, engineering and sciences.
Many graduates seek to continue their studies at vysoké školy.
Higher education
Vysoké školy all boast
academic guidance service centres. The legislative basis for these was laid
down in the Higher Education Act passed in 1998, according to which the public
higher education institutions are obliged to offer to applicants, students and
other persons information and guidance services connected with the study and
future work placement of graduates of study programmes (similar guidance is
usually also provided by private higher education institutions). At that time
there were already 41 of these institutions in existence. By the end of 2006
their number had risen to77. They provide:
1. Educational guidance before and during the first months of study at a vysoká
škola. The guidance service centres help students to choose or to change their
branch of studies according to their personal interests and abilities, to work
out their study plan, develop study skills they may lack, etc. If the school
management so wishes, the centres are involved in admittance procedures, and
can set and evaluate tests of study skills or other tests of special abilities.
2. Psychological counselling and psychotherapy throughout studies to help solve
study related problems (stress because of failure, frustration due to
interpersonal conflicts) and personal ones (stemming from drug or other type of
addictions, family disruption, lack of communicative competency, etc.).
3. Vocational and career guidance. Centres put students in touch with future
employers, give advice on finding a job, how to plan and shape a professional
career, etc. On the request of the school management they can monitor the kinds
of job graduates move into.
Academic guidance centres help also avoiding subsequent changes of study
programme or fields.
Unemployment among higher education graduates is notably lower than for people
with other educational qualifications and they are best placed to find
employment. Due to rising skill requirements the labour market is starting to
recruit graduates where until recently only secondary education was required.
Most graduates find employment in the field they studied, although this can
vary from field to field. Civil engineers show the lowest percentage working in
their field, and doctors the highest. Teachers are the most likely to transfer
to a different field from that they graduated in. This can be explained
primarily by unsatisfactory pay conditions in the education sector.
Important in social terms is the evidence of rapid, sometimes repeated changes
of employment at the beginning of a professional career, which have been
documented in the case of almost half of all university graduates.
In order to assure the best prospects of graduates on the labour market the
cooperation of vysoké školy and industry / target market is supported and is
continuously growing.
University graduates normally leave their institutions aware that they must
continue to educate themselves even after graduation, and not only in their
field. They seek study opportunities in various forms of further education or
re-training courses, many of which are provided by Centres for Distance
Learning or Lifelong Learning at a higher education level.
The development of talented students is not institutionalised and mostly takes
the form of various competitions for the best undergraduate or graduate work. The
winners of these competitions receive financial rewards. Such competitions are
held not only by vysoké školy or the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports,
but also by non-educational establishments such as the
Institutions:
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Fax:420.222560083
E-mail: nadace@nclf.cz
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