Posted in Education & Science, Prague, tagged Prague, universities, UNYP on June 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
All the respect that I used to have for University of New York in Prague [UNYP] is gone. I saw their ad in a newspaper. It is the same blue ad that you probably can see on the homepage [link above and screenshot below] and that includes the slogan:
Educating tomorrow’s leaders…
Considering the Czech tertiary [...]
Posted in Economy, Education & Science, tagged money, salaries, strike on June 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Thousands of Czech teachers were on strike on Monday.
For better salaries. They claim that the government’s economic reforms makes their net wages lower than they were before the reform. Well, that DOES sound like a legitimate reason for a strike.
But then there were people who went on strike just because they think their salaries are [...]
Posted in Education & Science, Eh, Czechs on May 7, 2008 | No Comments »
The last week of April and the first two weeks of May are the last three weeks high school seniors are “students” of their schools. So it is the time for them to collect some money for their going away parties. These unofficial parties take place with A LOT of alcohol: Czechs can legally purchase and drink alcohol when [...]
Posted in Education & Science, Politics, tagged strike, teachers, unions on May 6, 2008 | No Comments »
Czech Teachers’ Unions announced their strike alert and their intention to strike in June. They demand higher salaries. Education Minister Ondrej Liska managed to find half a billion in this year’s budget and some more billions for the years to come but it is not enough for the union leaders, iDNES news server reported.
I must [...]
Posted in Education & Science, Language on April 7, 2008 | No Comments »
I have never translated a thesis.
Which is what I have been doing now. Its topic is related to mortgages.
I often have a big problem with texts that their authors did not write for themselves but for somebody else. A young student who would like to finally get her BA degree often writes sentences that she [...]
Posted in Education & Science, tagged graduations, schools on April 6, 2008 | No Comments »
It has been a tradition that high school seniors introduce themselves to fellow citizens of their city. They post their photos on funny, sophisticated, or otherwise unique boards in shop windows. Sometimes the boards would resemble Most Wanted Lists, sometimes they look like Andy Warhol artworks.
To explain this, pupils in Czech school are assigned to ”classes” [...]
Posted in Education & Science, Life on February 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Now, this definitely looks interesting…
Patients who have to see their doctor in a certain Prague hospital can pay for the visit via a special-rate SMS from their cell phones. The thirty-crown one-off fee that was introduced as a part of the new healthcare reform is usually paid in cash in doctors’ offices to the nurse [...]
Posted in Education & Science, Politics on February 19, 2008 | No Comments »
There is an article about the unsuccessful presidential candidate and University of Michigan Professor Jan Svejnar in the Michigan Daily. Nice sum-up of the whole story except it ignores the fact that Svejnar seriously considers staying in politics. Instead, it just mentions Svejnar’s immediate intention to “go back to school”.
Posted in Education & Science, tagged drink, expedition, food, polar on February 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Scientists from the Czech polar expedition who work around the South Pole discovered an old unsused British supply station. And they tasted soup that they found there. Made in the 1950’s, the Brnensky denik daily reports.
The team found the station near the shore of the peninsula, from the data that was found inside it was [...]
Posted in Economy, Education & Science, tagged tuition on January 10, 2008 | No Comments »
First some explanation: there is absolutely NO tuition at Czech public colleges and universities.
The issue of introduction of tuition at public colleges and universities is not at all new and all previous governments had to deal with it somehow. But the current government now says that they will try to enforce tuition during their term, [...]
