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[5] Main Bodies, their Scope

of Action, Infrastructure

5�1 National authorities vzdělávání pedagogických pracovníků, NÚV) �
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influencing the The NÚV is public, non-profit organisation
managed directly by the MEYS� The main
provision of career tasks of the National Institute of Education
are: creation of framework of education-
guidance and al programmes, support in developing

counselling in the schools educational programmes, further
education for teachers and other peda-
educational sector gogical staff, pedagogical-psychological
counselling, career guidance, equal access
to education, acquisition of qualifications,
The Ministry of Education, Youth and comprehensive information about schools
Sports (Ministerstvo školství, mládeže and fields of study� In the past, it carried out
a tělovýchovy, MŠMT) MEYS maintains the inte- several projects dealing with guidance and
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grated national educational policy by formu- counselling, e� g� UNIV2 Kraje , VIP Kariéra �
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lating the long-term policy objectives (Dlou- The first phase of the VIP Kariéra project was
hodobý záměr vzdělávání a rozvoje vzdělávací primarily focused on the development and
soustavy)� Above all, the MEYS is responsible for improvement of educational counselling
the planning, status and development of the at schools and school facilities� The second
education system, including the area of science, phase of the project was devoted to the
youth and sports, and for the state’s education development and use of an e-learning
financing policy – for producing the education programme to train guidance counsellors
budget and determining the principles for its and to develop a career guidance infor-
allocation� One of the strategic issues is also mation tool ISA+ � The system provides in-
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a counselling system� The Ministry of Education formation on education and work employ-
accredits higher education institutions (ISCED ment possibilities of graduates and further
6–8) and their programmes� information supporting educationalist and
counsellors in their work� The Institute also
The Ministry of Education supervises a number runs the Centre for Career Counselling
of state-funded organizations of which the which provides counselling services via
following are engaged in career guidance and e-mail, phone, and personal consultations�
counselling:
— The Centre for International Coop-
— The National Institute for Education,
School Guidance and Counselling Facili-
ties and Facilities for Continuing Teach- 32 www.nuv.cz
er Training (Národní ústav pro vzdělávání, 33 www.nuov.cz/univ2k/projekt
školské poradenské zařízení a zařízení pro další
34 http://www.nuv.cz/projekty/vip?highlight-
Words=vip+kari%C3%A9ra
31 www.msmt.cz 35 www.infoabsolvent.cz/

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