Involving PhD students in the teaching of mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology in secondary and primary schools will help address the risk of a shortage of teachers for these subjects. Representatives of science faculties and representatives of the ministry agreed on the preparation of a programme that will motivate doctoral students in relevant fields to supplement their teaching qualifications while studying at science faculties at a meeting of the association on 10-11 January 2023 in Prague.
At the meeting of the association, the deans also discussed the topic of cooperation with journals with a reduced level of peer review and expressed concern about the increasing cases of non-compliance with publication ethics and the use of unfair practices in the reporting of scientific results. In order to improve the quality of education of future scientists, the deans of the associations in the Association of Deans of Faculties of Science agreed to develop a code of conduct for supervisors.
The full resolution is available here.
Let us introduce the news valid from September: Oral exam only in the presence of three people, verbal evaluation of the course of the state exam or the possibility to have a representative from the faculty management during the non-public part of the resit period of the state exam.
Plant diversity in European forests, wetlands and grasslands is rapidly disappearing. This long-term trend is now confirmed by representative data. Botanists from Brno's Masaryk University, in cooperation with more than 250 scientists from most European countries, have collected an extensive data set,...
