The sociologist evaluates Czech education as average. If he were to mark him as in school, he gets a clear “three-pointer”. Simply put, in the context of grades, it could be much better.
Social inequalities
„In that school you have different subjects in which we do relatively well and some very poorly. Where we are doing badly is that a large part of education is behind us, we have great social inequalities. There is a big difference between what the success rate ispupils from a good environment, an educated, rich environment, and vice versa pupils from a poorer, less educated environment have“said sociologist Prokop in the introduction of the Epicenter for Blesk report.
A system that is difficult to manage
According to Prokop, one of the biggest problems is that in some regionsrelatively small participation already in pre-school education, where children from social a weaker environment could catch up with a certain handicap.
„This is followed by primary education, the main problem of which is that it is terribly fragmented, we have approximately 4,500 schools, and those schools are managed by 2,600 founders, so it’s like a system that is very difficult to manage and the quality of schools varies enormously. Some schools are very small, some schools are so residual that it is for those children who are excluded from education, so the system is a very fragmented system and generates a huge burdenand in management and in the fact that each school of course has its own janitors, building administration and the like and vice versa as difficult to manage. Those directors don’t have support in this, because they don’t have someone above them to advise them,” Prokop explained, adding that the imaginary funnel comes with secondary education.
A funnel in the middle of the education system
„Roughly 30% of children or 35 get into general secondary schools. There is a huge competition for the general secondary schools and it is paradoxical, because then 55% of the year goes on to universities, so much more than they go to the general secondary schools, which are used for that preparation, so the secondary schools cannot prepare the children for the universities,” said the sociologist, adding that we also have a great failure at the universities.
A problem at every turn
„The unavailability of secondary schools, the closure of the funnel in the middle of the education system creates a kind of extreme competition and the fact that education is about preparing for tests and the like instead of content, so in every step of education there is some big systemic problem that we have to solve ,Prokop concluded.
