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Education in the later age as a way to improve the quality of life and personal satisfaction
SUCHÁNKOVÁ, Ilona
Universities of the Third Age (U3A) serve a specific task in the area of education or if you like life-study. They are adherent to universities and open to wider public and its educational needs. They provide general, special-interest and non-professional education on university level. The history of an establishment of education of senior people in programs of the University of the Third Age in the Czech Republic starts in 1980{\crq}s. The first University of the Third Age was established at the Palacky University in Olomouc in 1987, other two at the Charles University in Prague and at the Faculty of Medicine in Pilsner. In 1992 U3A was established at the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice. The University of South Bohemia has been offering 33 educational programs, modules and courses to 1125 senior people. It provides them with the opportunity of further education, learning and use, it gives chance to implement interests, opens possibilities of new contacts, including intergenerational ones. The Bachelor{\crq}s Thesis presents a draft history of the University of the Third Age at the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice in the period from 1992 to 2010. The Thesis specifies priorities of development in the time of implementation of comprehensive educational programs, interprets results of an assessment of attendants of the selected educational programs implemented in the academic year of 2009/2010. The offer of educational programs, modules and courses for the academic year 2009/2010 it documents in an appendix. The Bachelor{\crq}s Thesis and its results are available to students, research workers in the area of education of later age people as well as specialists community. Partial results of the Thesis were presented by the author at the ``Students specialist conference of the University of the Third Age at the Faculty of Health and Social Studies of the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice{\crqq} held on 27 May 2009, at the ``Generation 50plus`` conference with an international attendance held from 21 to 22 April 2009 and in the article called ``Offer of educational opportunities for active senior people of the University of the Third Age at the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice in the academic year 2008/2009`` published in the Problems of the 50plus generation composite book 2009. It considers education in later age as a way to improvement of the quality of life of senior people and their personal satisfaction.
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