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The Bologna Process - Creation of a European Space for Higher Education
VYBÍHALOVÁ, Michaela
This thesis analyses the Bologna process, which is supposed to lead to the creation of The European Higher Education Area. Its objective is to present the origin and the development of this process, to explain its main principles and to describe its internal structure and functioning. The paper then evaluates the implementation of the Bologna process in the Czech republic and in France. It focuses concretely on the involvement of the University of South Bohemia and the University of South Brittany in the process and it evaluates its advantages for both universities and for their mutual cooperation.
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Financing public higher education and its changes
Rokosová, Monika ; Urbánek, Václav (advisor) ; Kubík, Rudolf (referee)
This bachelor thesis analyses system of financing public higher education in the Czech republic and its changes. At first it describes our higher education and draws attention to its shortcomings. In the next part it focuses on current system of financing public higher education, discusses its greatest problems and describes upcoming changes. The largest part is about the schoolfee. It features arguments for and against its implementation. This thesis presents two concrete forms of schoolfee, compares their weak and strong points and tries to find the most acceptable model for the Czech republic. It points to possibilities how to improve the system of student financial support. In the last part the present situation of the implementation of the schoolfee in the Czech republic is described.
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Financing of post-secondary education in Canada
Vašková, Daniela ; Urbánek, Václav (advisor) ; Kubík, Rudolf (referee)
The thesis focuses on higher education as an economic good and identifies its characteristics in relation to the method of financing. The main objective is to analyze the system of financing post-secondary education in Canada. The focus of this paper is mainly evaluation of decentralization and thus participation rate of federal and provincial governments for funding. Then it looks at issue of tuition fees and financial aid for students. On the basis of the analysis are evaluated the pros and cons of the system. The last section is devoted to the current lack of funding tertiary education in Czech Republic and proposed concept of tuition fees.
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A university educated nurse at the nursing unit - expectations and reality
LESZKOWOVÁ, Dana
Each era has its requirements for the level of education and training system for nursing staff. A person who wants to succeed in his/her profession needs appropriate knowledge, skills and education. The requirements for education are determined by technical possibilities and political arrangement of the society. In the past nurses got along on herbs and knowledge passed from one generation to another. The present time is an era of computers and enormous technical progress. Along with unbelievable developments in technology also the content of the nursing profession has changed. The nursing profession is now becoming a full-fledged and independent scientific discipline. This progress is increasing the requirements for education of healthcare personnel. It requires professionals with university education. The objective of the bachelor thesis has been to identify the expectations of nurses while studying at a university and the reality after they start working at the nursing unit. Six research questions were formulated in the thesis. The thesis used a qualitative method of research. The data were collected by means of semi-structured interviews. The interviews consisted of 25 basic questions, while some questions were complemented with additional questions. The interviews were recorded in a written form and subsequently processed. The interviews were processed into case studies. The most important results of the research have been processed into categorization tables. The research group consisted of 10 respondents who worked in different types of healthcare facilities in Prachatice, České Budějovice and in Prague. The research indicates that most of the nurses have used in practice the new knowledge acquired in the course of their studies. The results of the thesis may serve as an incentive for further quantitative research.
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American system of higher education, an inspiration for The Czech Republic?
Zemanová, Iva ; Kapinusová, Jana (advisor) ; Vebrová, Ludmila (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on the system of student financial aid in the USA. The analysis of this work presents the main positives of this system, which could be inspiring for a reform of higher education in The Czech Republic. At the same time, it points out some deficiencies of the American system, which could serve as a lesson for The Czech Republic. This paper also discusses the question of equality in access to higher education and presents important tools and mechanisms through which the US tries to achieve this equality.
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Financing of higher education in the United States
Černá, Veronika ; Urbánek, Václav (advisor)
This thesis covers financing of higher education in USA. American higher education must not depend only on state or federal finances. Colleges and universities need to find other resources. Grants and private sector resources compensate low level of state/federal subsidies. First part describes the most important financial resources of today, separately for private and state colleges - federal grants, tuition, local and state government contributions. Next, paper deals with crossover from supporting schools to supporting students and the actual state of tuition levels. In the second part, a brief outline of students'financial aid is given. Federal government manages great amount of money for this particular purpose. Accesibility of higher education in the USA is at the peak, there are currently 18 million students and the number is still rising. Thesis contains charts, graphs and tables to illustrate current situation as well.
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Financing of higher education in the Czech Republic
Tesková, Jana ; Urbánek, Václav (advisor)
This thesis examines the system of higher education in the Czech Republic, describes its shortcomings and discusses the possibility of cofinancing study by students. It focuses on economic aspects of higher education and describes financing of higher education in the Czech Republic. This thesis analyses contemporary level of higher education, it compares important indicators with members of OECD and tries to find main drawbacks of financing of higher education. It presents different models of student contribution in distinguished countries. It makes clear arguments for and against scholfee and discusses the possiblity of schoolfee in the Czech Republic. This thesis covers the project of student financial support that is contained in the " White book of tertiary education".
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Reform of Higher Education: Direct tution fee?
Kalichová, Petra ; Vostrovská, Zdenka (advisor) ; Czesaný, Slavoj (referee)
The goal of this bachelor work is concerned with introducing tution fees and student financial support. It is pointed out student loans and education savings as a source of funds of great scale in the theoretical part. The analytical part is focused on different kinds of student financial support used in Hungary, Canada and Netherlands. Final objective is to decide if icome-contingent repayments proposed by "White Book" is the best feasible solution for Czech Higher Education.
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