Overcoming School Failure: Policies That Work is the second OECD project in which the CSI participated within the framework of the activity 5 Competence III. The aim of the project was to provide a comprehensive unbiased view on the impacts of current educational policy and its possible changes in terms of fulfilment of the principle of equity (fairness and inclusion in education). The research team has identified seven key problems of equal access to education in the Czech Republic. Based on public discussions and on the results of qualitative research of expert community’s and ...

Within the framework of the 4th ESF Project Competence III activity, the CSI has become a part of the OECD project Review on Evaluation and Assessment Framework for Improving School Outcomes. Within the 4th activity, the OECD publication Reviews of Evaluation and Assessment in Education: Czech Republic was translated into the Czech language.   The expert community was introduced to OECD recommendations during broad public discussions. Their opinions and needs were subsequently verified in qualitative and quantitative inquiry (July 2013). The inquiry results were reflected to the ...

Mezinárodní šetření TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) zjišťuje úroveň znalostí a dovedností žáků 4. a/nebo 8. ročníku základní školy v matematice a v přírodovědných předmětech. Cyklus tohoto šetření je čtyřletý. Šetření je na mezinárodní úrovni koordinováno Mezinárodní asociací pro hodnocení výsledků vzdělávání (The International Association for the Educational Achievment – IEA), v ČR je jeho realizátorem ...

On July 9, 2014, the CSI published results of the International Programme PISA 2012 with a focus on financial literacy. The subject of financial literacy was among pupils from involved individual countries tested for the first time ever since 2000. Despite expectations based on last year's results in individual literacies, the Czech pupils were with their outcomes in financial literacy above average. Czech pupils rank among the 7 most successful countries and their results are comparable with those achieved by pupils from Poland and New Zealand. Czech pupils performed better than ...

TALIS 2013The international project TALIS is the first international survey interviewing teachers and school principals from 34 countries and economics  about the school climate, course of the learning process and work conditions of teachers and principals. The main data collection took place in the Czech Republic from 5 March to 5 May 2013 at 220 schools on the ISCED 2 level. The principals thereof and in total 3 219 selected teachers participated in the survey.   At the end of May 2013, the data files were transferred to the international centre. The results of TALIS 2013 ...

On March 24, 2014 the Czech School Inspectorate and the Committee for Education, Science, Culture, Human Rights and Petitions of the Senate of the Czech Parliament held a conference entitled Assessment of Evaluation and Monitoring System in the Czech Republic – Recommendations for the Education Policy.   The conference was held on the occasion of publishing the final report of the project Assessment of Evaluation and Monitoring System in the Czech Republic co-financed by the European Social Fund. The report of the same name presents OECD recommendations for the Czech ...

The abbreviation SICI stands for The Standing International Conference of Inspectorates. This association of national and regional school inspectorates in Europe was founded in 1995, and the Czech School Inspectorate was among the “father founders”. At present, there are 35 member inspectorates, Bavaria (Germany) as the newest SICI member since February, 2015.   SICI provides its members with services focused on the professional development of inspectorates and their members. These services involve organizing workshops, building professional networks and managing the ...

BASIC INFORMATION ON ACTIVITIES OF THE CZECH SCHOOL INSPECTORATE   The Czech School Inspectorate is an administrative body of the Czech Republic and an organizational component of the state. The institution is established by the School Act (Act No. 561/2014 on Pre-school, Basic, Secondary, Tertiary Professional and Other Education). It is headed by the Chief School Inspector, appointed (and dismissed) by the State Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports. The Czech School Inspectorate (CSI) consists of headquarters based in Prague and 14 regional ...

On Monday, February 2, 2015, the Deputy Chief School Inspector Ondrej Andrys received a delegation of 26 participants from the Korean Ministry of Education. During a hour´s meeting our foreign guests were introduced to the Czech education system and the role of the CSI. In the following discussion the delegates took interest in FEP (Framework Educational Programs) and SEP (School Educational Programs) topics. At the same time they inquired about methods for dealing with risky behaviour of pupils in schools e.g. bullying. 

On September 1, 2014, the Czech Republic assumed presidency of the Board of Governors of European Schools as well as other administrative bodies of the system. This happened for the first time since 2004 – the year of the Czech Republic´s accession to Convention Defining the Status of European Schools. The Czech Republic will thus distinctly participate in further development of European schools till the end of the school year 2014/2015.