Waiting for the Godot of Government Funding












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            * Waiting for the Godot of Government Funding
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            "Believing that the government will ever provide more funding than today is na?ve," said a

            professor Daniel Münich at the tuition fee themed seminar which took place on November 30t
            opinion, tuition fees will be a necessary source of higher education funding in the near f
            Münich, the co-author of the white paper on tertiary education, took part in the round tab

            dean of the Faculty of Informatics of the Masaryk University in Brno prof. Jiří Zlatuška, 
            the Students' chamber of the Council of Higher Education Institutions Mgr. Miroslav Jašure
            of the student magazine Sociál and a Faculty of Social Sciences student Mgr. Miroslava Paš

            was organized by the informal group of Charles University teachers from the Uzsenatonemohu
            "http://www.uzsenatonemohudivat.cz/"] (Can't Sit And Wait Anymore) initiative.

            Speaking for the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Münich presented the delayed tui
            a socially sensitive measure that sets the maximum tuition based on the projected earnings
            saying that that graduates are only obliged to pay the tuition after reaching a certain le

            The audience objected to the idea that in some programmes, the tuition would be automatica
            including teachers college programmes, in which the state is unable to provide high enough


            Right at the beginning, prof. Zlatuška expressed his doubts over the white paper while cal
            complex and specific. He added that tuition fees whose amount is determined by the univers
            of the British-American system, followed by some of the post-communist countries.

            Speaking fot the Council of Higher Education Institutions, Mgr. Miroslav Jašurek warned ag
            consumer attitude in the higher education institutions funded by tuition fees and said tha
            fees do not cover the improvement of the quality of teaching or higher salaries for teache

            Being the co-author of the white paper, Daniel Münich was the target of most of the questi
            Stanislav Štech warned against the consumer behavior among students, saying that afte payi
            people tend to buy a product and ignore the process of getting towards it.

            Mr. Münich also had to defend the fact that while talking about price signals in tertiary 
            talking about commercial value. His defence against these claims proved to be rather unsuc
            P.K.

            Translation: Jaroslav Švelch