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Financing of our faculty
The chancellor of
Charles University – Dr. Milan Prášil, MBA – visited the December meeting of
the Academic Senate of First Faculty of Medicine to discuss the distribution of
finances among different faculties of the university.
The First Faculty of Medicine has been critical of how the
rectorate redistributes finances among individual faculties. The Faculty has
concerns about the lack of transparency regarding the distribution, the
expenditures of the rectorate and the disproportionately little increase in
grants to our medical faculty vs. the
increasing trend of grants to the university from the state.
The principle of the distribution of grants from the
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) is a complex and complicated
process, including coefficients such as KEN (the coefficient of economic
difficulty), K (the coefficient of quality of education), number of students
etc. The university receives grants from the ministry for individual faculties
mainly based on KEN (that is traditionally large in case of medical faculties).
A fraction from it, depending on KEN, goes to financing the activities of the
rectorate. Therefore, medical faculties, having large KEN, pay the rectorate
more than other faculties even though the services provided by the rectorate
are approximately the same. The further distribution of finances depends on the
coefficient of quality of education which has been questioned to be
manufactured in order to meet the so called "principle of solidarity".
In respect to the principle, economically „more successful“ faculties
financially help the „less successful“ ones. As a result of that, medical
faculties belong among the faculties of Charles University with the lowest
quality of education. Currently, our faculty receives from the state (resp.
university) less money than is needed to pay education for a Czech student.
Without additional income such as tuition fees from the English parallel, it
would be hard to remain financially sustainable.
The Council of Higher Education Institutions
Dr. Martin Vejražka, PhD. was nominated to the Council of
Higher Education Institutions as a representative of our First Faculty of
Medicine.
Elections to the Academic Senate of Charles University
Our new representatives in the Academic Senate of Charles University are
professor Jiří Raboch, professor Stanislav Štípek and students Josef Holub and
Martin Pehr - the candidates elected in the November polls. The student voter
turnout was low at 8.3 %.
The Academic Senate of the university votes the rector,
creates regulations which are superior to our faculty regulations, votes on
budget of the university as well as the distribution of finances among
faculties. Each faculty has 4 representatives in the senate.