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[3] Key Data, Statistics

3�1 Monitoring / plans is the system of guidance and counselling

evaluation of career services� One of the deficiencies of the above
mentioned decree is the fact that it does not
guidance and require individual schools to include a chapter
on educational counselling in the annual report
counselling in the on the school’s activities� In their self-evaluation,
schools describe the manner in which support
educational sector is provided to pupils and students and how
they cooperate with parents, but not how they
3� 1� 1 at schools up to actually perform educational counselling�

tertiary professional level The guidance and counselling services provided
at schools up to the tertiary professional level
and school guidance facilities are one the
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A decree based on the Education Act subjects of evaluation by the Czech School
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requires the MEYS to prepare a long-term Inspectorate (Česká školní inspekce, ČŠI)� It
plan for education and the development is primarily activities carried out within the
of the education system in the CR every framework of the educational process that are
3 years, which provides a basis for the drafting evaluated�
of a long-term plan by each of the 14 regions�
One of the strategic focuses of these long-term See TAbLE № 1
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TAbLE № 1: Number of pupils / students, schools and approximate estimation of the school educational
guidance counsellors (school year 2016/2017) 16
Number of School
Tertiary
basic Secondary professional Total
schools schools
schools
pupils / students 906 188 424 805 21 994 1 352 987
schools 4 140 1 307 168 5 615

classes 45 116 19 380 904 65 400
school educational 6 500 practitioners (including - -
guidance counsellors 4 000 educational counsellors,
(estimation of persons) special needs teachers and
psychologists)

14 Decree No� 15/2005 Coll�, laying down the requirements for long-term aims, annual reports and the
self-evaluation of schools
15 Act No� 561/2004 Coll�, on pre-school, basic, secondary, tertiary professional and other education (the
Education Act)
16 http://vdb.czso.cz

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