NEW YORK – Last weekend’s European Parliament election and presidential election in Ukraine produced sharply contrasting results. Europe’s voters expressed their dissatisfaction with the way that the European Union currently functions, while Ukraine’s people demonstrated their desire for association with…
The Minister of Education Kateřina Valachová will have to face personnel stabilization of the Ministry, Amendment to the University Act, which is in the Chamber of Deputies and next Amendment to the Education Act, which is supposed to introduce one…
Počet romských žáků, kteří jsou vzděláváni jako žáci s lehkým mentálním postižením, zůstává v zásadě stejný. Aktuální data ministerstva školství vlastně potvrzují dřívější zjištění ze zápisů do prvních tříd a z přestupů dětí z bývalých praktických škol, že se žádné masové přesuny žáků nekonají. Apokalyptické…
When Harland Sanders began selling fried chicken, he was no different from anyone else. What turned his efforts into the famous KFC restaurant was a few small details, among them the secret ingredients of his spice mix. What is the…
Eight years ago today, the Czech Republic was condemned by the European Court of Human Rights for discriminating against Roma children in its education system in the landmark D.H. judgment. Piecemeal measures post 2007 failed to eliminate discrimination and in…
The blog was originally published at www.openheroines.org. It’s been three and a half years since a group of amazing women decided to create Open Heroines — a platform for every woman working in the #OpenData, #OpenGov, and #CivicTech communities. And it’s been…
"The thing about change is that it can happen very quickly. You can wake up one day and the democracy as you knew it had died yesterday," says a Polish women´s right activist Marta Lempart. Marta is a women’s rights…
The phenomenon of disinformation is to a certain degree linked to the fact that we are living in an era where we no longer “consume” the media the same way we used to. At the same time, even the most…
Karin Marques, a specialist in inclusive education with the Open Society Fund Prague, has published on the website of the foundation her impressions from a study trip to Slovakia organized by the League of Community Schools (Liga komunitních škol), which…
At a time when we are facing so-called "alternative facts" (or untruths) more and more frequently in the public discourse, correcting the record appears to become more and more of a Sisyphean task. Long before the term "alternative facts" was…
