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[8] Quality Assurance

8�1 Standards, 8�2 Guidance

indicators, accreditation professionals
systems

8� 2� 1 Qualifications –
The school guidance and counselling facilities
as well as schools must fulfil a set of require- requirements / standards
ments to be registered in the School Register�
They are regularly evaluated by the Czech
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School Inspectorate based on the Criteria for Qualification requirements and standards are
Evaluation of Conditions, Course and Results of regulated by legislation by the relevant sector
Education 63, 64 � All school and school facilities under which career guidance is provided
guidance and counselling staff must have the (education, employment)� The educational
qualifications laid down in the Act on Teaching staff responsible for guidance and counselling
Staff (see 8�2) services at school and school facilities must fulfil
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qualification requirements given by the Act on
Higher education institutions and their Teaching Staff� They must also follow the “stand-
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programmes are accredited by the Ministry ard activities” stipulated in the Decree �
of Education, Youth and Sports based on the
opinion of the Accreditation Commission� How-
ever, there are no standards or an accreditation 8� 2� 1� 1 Educational staff 67
system specifically for the counselling centres
established by the institutions� 8� 2� 1� 1� 1 Educational staff
responsible for guidance in schools
Outside the education system, there is no
accreditation system for the profession of career
counsellor or counselling institutions� Professional teaching qualifications for the
relevant type or stage of school and completion
of a study programme for an educational
counsellors of at least 250 hours, completed
by the defence of a thesis and final examina-
tion in front of the examining board, which is
organised by the higher education institution
as part of a life-long learning programme are

66 www.msmt.cz/dokumenty/narizeni-vla-
62 www.csicr.cz/en/home?lang=en-us dy-kterym-se-stanovi-rozsah-prime-vyucova-
63 www.csicr.cz/cz/Dokumenty/Kriteria-hodnoceni/ ci-prime-vychovne-prime-specialne-pedagog-
Kriteria-hodnoceni-podminek,-prubehu-a-vys- icke-a-prime-pedagogicko-psychologicke-cinnos-
ledk-%284%29 ti-pedagogickych-pracovniku
67 https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/fpfis/mwikis/
64 www.csicr.cz/getattachment/272d-
d1ee-5a0d-4de9-8d5d-8b6cc47152d1 eurydice/index.php/Czech-Republic:Education_
Staff_Responsible_for_Guidance_in_Early_Child-
65 Act No� 563/2004 Coll�, on teaching staff� hood_and_School_Education

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