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The Higher Education Act amended several of qualification of natural persons in order to
times, extended the non-university and private choose a career, to broker a suitable employ-
sectors of higher education� The majority of ment, to select vocational training for disabled
these are no longer state institutions (with the persons and to choose suitable active employ-
exception of military and police higher educa- ment policy instruments�
tion institutions which are entirely state-fund-
ed) but public institutions (state-subsidised) In 2011, the Act on the Labour Office of the
that manage their own property and have Czech Republic and on amendments to re-
wide-ranging autonomy� 27 lated Acts (Act No� 73/2011 Coll�) was adopted;
it institutes a General Directorate of the Labour
The Act on the Verification and Recogni- Office which is responsible for public employ-
tion of the Results of Further Education ment services (PES) in the Czech Republic�
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opened up a new pathway for adults to obtain
a certificate for qualifications attained in prac- Despite of all existing legal basis providing an
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tice without formal education� operating ground to guidance and counselling
services in the world of education and work,
terms such as “career guidance/counselling” and
4�2 Legislation “career counsellor” are not introduced in the
Czech legislation�
governing the

employment sector 4�3 Lifelong learning,
employment and social
The Employment Act (Act No� 435/2004
Coll�) regulates the provision of the state’s em- inclusion strategies
ployment policy, the goal of which is to attain
full employment rate and to protect against and implications for
unemployment, fair treatment and ban on
discrimination for persons asserting their right guidance
to employment, the activities performed by La-
bour office and their powers, the assessment of
natural persons’ health condition and healthcare The Czech Republic has striven to increase
providers’ cooperation with the assessment of the quality and accessibility of education by
their health condition, the right to employ- formulating new long term goals Education
ment� Active employment policy measures Policy Strategy of the Czech Republic for
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also include counselling, which is provided or 2020 � This comprehensive document strives,
organised by the Labour Offices for the purpose among other things, to overcome the problems
of determining the personal qualities and level resulting from the fragmentation of strategic
planning and management in the field of edu-
cation policy� From a conceptual point of view,
26 Section 22 (d) the Act on Higher Education the strategy defines the basic priorities of the
Institutions No� 111/1998 Coll�
development of the educational system of the
27 The Education System in the Czech Republic� Czech Republic to be followed by authorities
MEYS� Prague� 2012 and policy makers� The strategy is, in line with
28 Act No� 179/2006 Coll�, on the verification and the Education & Training 2020 framework, based
recognition of the results of further education on the concept of lifelong learning aiming at
and on amendments to certain Acts (Act on the
recognition of further education results)�
29 The Education System in the Czech Republic� 30 www.vzdelavani2020.cz/images_obsah/doku-
MEYS� Prague� 2012 menty/strategie-2020_web.pdf

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