Technological readiness and higher education in the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7474655/" target="_blank" >http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7474655/</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2016.7474655" target="_blank" >10.1109/EDUCON.2016.7474655</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Technological readiness and higher education in the Czech Republic

Original language description

Globalization, preparation of educational process and education of students for their future life are nowadays important topics. World Economic Forum makes since 2001 comparison of the countries all over the world in the Global Competitiveness Index. The article proposes to describe the situation in the field of technology level in the connection with higher education in the Czech Republic. We will concretely focus on the Technological Readiness and Higher education and training. Technological readiness and sub index Higher education and training are the part of the Efficiency Enhancer which has 50% of the percentage share of the Global Competitiveness Index. The first part of the article contains the description of the Higher education and training index and the Technological Readiness index and the results of the development in the evaluation in the Czech Republic. The Technological Readiness and Higher education and training are since 2008 composed from indicators that will be described in the article. The technological readiness of the country, business entities and their citizens has an integral impact on the economic situation and education. Due it will be the obtained results connected with the results of the various investigations of the Czech Statistical Office and official results from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in the second part of the article. In the article will be confirmed or rejected two hypothesis focused on technological readiness and higher education and training. The results shows that the situation is getting better in the Czech Republic in the comparison with previous years. The cooperation between universities and the business sector in research and development, employing of the graduates, utilization of technologies in companies are next important topics.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

AE - Management, administration and clerical work

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

EDUCON 2016 : proceedings of IEEE global engineering education conference

ISBN

978-1-4673-8633-3

ISSN

2165-9567

e-ISSN

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Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

874-882

Publisher name

IEEE

Place of publication

Piscataway

Event location

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Event date

Apr 10, 2016

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

000386529800135