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Inequality in Acces to Tertiary Education
Koucký, Jan ; Walterová, Eliška (advisor) ; Šebková, Helena (referee) ; Kolář, Petr (referee)
The aim of the thesis is to elaborate a theoretically well grounded concept and to use it for a comparative analysis of the development of inequalities in access to tertiary education in European countries. To achieve the aim, it has been necessary not only to acquire a thorough knowledge of how the theme is dealt with in other countries but, in particular, to find relevant data needed for comparative analyses. The author - who has concerned himself with the problem for more than twenty years - has solved it in an original way by combining three stages of the European Social Survey (ESS) conducted in 2002-2007, and by supplementing it with a special Czech survey conducted in 2007/2008.
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Personal management of university students
Dejmalová, Lenka ; Starý, Karel (advisor) ; Šebková, Helena (referee) ; Matošková, Jana (referee)
The aim of the thesis is to explore the first-year undergraduates' strategies of self-management. The thesis contains the theoretical and empirical part. The theoretical part deals with the transformation of higher education in Europe and in the Czech Republic followed by the changes in the university student career and lifestyle. Special attention is devoted to university socialization, the personality of the university student and their new roles. The next chapter of the theoretical part presents the concepts of personal management and academic self-management. Effective and successful university study and personal strategies of self-management then appear to be interdependent. The aim of the qualitative research is to explore and describe how the first-year students organize their study. Firstly, the content analysis of selected study plans was carried out and the orientation questionnaire survey was conducted among 165 first-year students at the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. Later, also other methods were applied: the diary of study week and electronic interviews. The data were analysed through open coding and thematic coding. Two basic types of students were distinguished based on the dominant out-of-class activities and the diversity of tendencies in independent...
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