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Authors: Matějů, Petr, Blanka Řeháková, Natalie Simonová
The chapter addresses a hypothesis according to which inequality in access to higher education did not decrease during socialism, while it has grown during the post-communist transformation. The analysis revealed that the only significant change that occurred during socialism was...
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Authors: Schwarzenberger, Astrid (ed.)
The aim of this project was to provide reliable data and information on the real and effective distribution of (teaching-related) costs of higher education. The shares of public and private costs were calculated for students of different socio-economic origin, reflecting social d...
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Authors: Smith, Michael L.
An extended book review that overviews the arguments, data and analysis of the book Nerovné šance na vzdělaní (Unequal Chances in Education), edited by Petr Mateju and Jana Strakova.
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Authors: Večerník, Jiří
This article draws on income surveys from the last two decades to report on trends in earnings disparities and household income inequality in the Czech Republic. Education has been the main axis of change in this area, having acquired a much greater role in the entire process of...
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Authors: Simonová, Natalie, Dimonik Antonowitz
This article aims to compare development in tackling educational inequalities and attempt to evaluate their policies and reforms from the beginning of socialism to-date in the Czech Republic and Poland. A considerable difference in the number of higher education institutions emer...
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Authors: Matějů, Petr, Blanka Řeháková, Natalie Simonová
The primary aim of the paper is to compare the development of inequality in access to higher education during the communist and post-communist regimes by testing hypotheses about the effects of economic and cultural dimensions of socio-economic background and gender on the odds o...
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Authors: Simonová, Natalie, David Greger
The book addresses the issue of inequality and inequity in access to education, with a particular emphasis on the role of educational policies. It does so by providing an overview of the main theoretical approaches to the issue and an inventory of existing indicators on which the...
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Authors: Matějů, Petr, Michael L. Smith
This article analyzes changes in the determination of Czech educational aspirations from 1989 to 2003, on the basis of social origin, ability, gender and other factors. The empirical research is based on a comparison of Czech data from the "Rodina ’89" and the 200...
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Authors: Matějů, Petr, Blanka Řeháková, Natalie Simonová
The aim of this study is to address the question of how inequalities in access to tertiary education have evolved in the Czech Republic. With an understanding of the basic parameters of both the contemporary political and institutional reforms and those in effect prior to Novembe...
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Authors: Hamplová, D., N. Simonová
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Authors: Raudenská, P., Hamplová, D.
This study investigated the effects of family socioeconomic status on children’s academic performance as mediated by their home environment and children’s characteristics, with special attention to gender differences. Structural modeling was applied to a nationally representative...
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Authors: Vohlídalová, Marta
The paper asks in what ways students in Czech higher education cope with sexual harassment and what strategies they choose to deal with it. It builds on a qualitative study of a higher education institution in Prague. The study reveals that student’s narratives are organize...
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22. 11. 2022
Making universities and research organisations safe for students
NKC - gender a věda připravilo debatu, která ukáže mimo jiné úplně nové statistiky o rozšířenosti sexuálního obtěžování a genderově podmíněného násilí na evropských univerzitách. Aktuální data představí experti a expertky z unikátního evropského projektu UniSAFE, na kterém se NKC...
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Authors: Matějů, Petr, Michael L. Smith, Petr Soukup, Josef Basl
The aspirations and expectations of pupils are one of the most significant causal factors on achieving higher education. Educational expectations are also incfluenced by the social status of the family, the institutional context of educational systems, and other factors. The goal...
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Authors: Matějů, Petr, Blanka Řeháková, Natalie Simonová
The goal of the chapter is to show how czech population perceives a limited offer of educational opportunities at some high schools and universities, and also what is its feeling about relatively high inequalities in access to higher education. The article answers these questions...
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Authors: Simonová, Natalie, Petr Soukup
This article shows the trends in the influence of socio-economic, cultural and gender factors in the reproduction of educational inequality in access to tertiary education in five countries: Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Germany and Poland. The analysis follows on previous...
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Authors: Hamplová, Dana, Katrňák, Tomáš (eds.)
Za posledních dvacet let došlo v České republice k zásadnímu nárůstu počtu studentů na vysokých školách. Jedním z důsledků je, že v naší populaci vzrostly podíly osob s ukončeným vysokoškolským vzděláním na dvojnásobek. Prudký rozvoj vzdělávacího systému vyvolává řadu otázek. Měn...
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Každý rok české věznice opustí přibližně 10 tisíc vězňů. V přepočtu na 100 tisíc obyvatel máme šestou největší vězeňskou populaci v rámci Evropské unie – na konci července 2021 počet činil téměř 19 tisíc vězňů. Jaké nástrahy ale po propuštění vězně čekají, jak se s nimi vypořádáv...
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Authors: Simonová, Natalie, Petr Soukup
The main objective of this paper is to show to what extent and why students with the same academic aptitude but different social backgrounds have different odds of entering university. For our analysis, we separated primary and secondary factors of social origin in the formation...
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Authors: Simonová, Natalie
This article deals with the evolution of inequalities in access to tertiary education in the Czech Republic since 1989. The opening hypothesis of this article is that there has been an increase in educational inequalities in the Czech Republic since 1989 resulting from the unequa...

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