From Azerbaijan via the classrooms of Masaryk University to Amazon’s Prague offices: this has been the journey of Samir Salimov, a foreign graduate of the English Finance programme at the Faculty of Economics and Administration.
This year’s applicants for studies at Masaryk University will encounter a few changes in the admission procedure. The “Learning Potential Test” (LPT, abbreviated TSP in Czech) required by most faculties will still be taken by applicants in person, but they will write it using tablet computers.
Several months ago, Czechs chose their representatives for the Senate and municipal councils. Now, they are electing the president. What do voters decide on when they don’t know the candidates? Do preferential votes have any impact and to whom do people give them? This and other topics are discussed by Lucie Coufalová, a researcher in the field of electoral behaviour, in this interview.
Masaryk University’s PhD students can look forward to significant improvement of their financial situation. The amount of support granted to full-time doctoral study programme students will be increased by 25%, from CZK 12,000 to CZK 15,000 per month, according to the most recent measure issued by Rector Martin Bareš.
In 2013 it was the Sudeten Germans, five years later it was migrants. Disinformation and fake news have played a significant role in both presidential elections so far. Will it also influence the current presidential election? According to Štěpán Mikula from the Faculty of Economics and Administration at Masaryk University and the SYRI Institute, who, among other topics, researches electoral behaviour, it is very likely.
The Czech university team has arrived in Lake Placid for the Winter World University Games. A total of 93 Czech student-athletes will compete in 12 winter sports from 12 to 22 January. Nine of them study at Masaryk University.
A few days before Christmas, the first snow of the year covered the buildings of Masaryk University. Look at how the faculties and other university departments look under the snowcap.
The financial crisis, pandemic, war in Ukraine. These are the biggest recent crises to which European governments have had to respond. How can they learn from them and govern more efficiently? That is what researchers participating in the international ROBUST project will try to answer. One of them is Juraj Nemec from the Department of Public Economics.