Ing. Radim Ry\u0161ka<\/strong>, Ph.D.<\/p>\n Director of CHES<\/p>\n 739 203 722<\/p>\n ryska@csvs.cz<\/p>\n For a long time, Radim Ry\u0161ka has been focusing on the relationship between higher education and society, specifically the demand for graduates on the labour market, the evaluation of their gained education and the functioning of higher education systems. Prior to CHES, he worked for more than 15 years in the Education Policy Centre of the Charles University. He has extensive experience with projects and research. Furthermore, he worked at the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports and at the Technical University in Brno.<\/p>\n Mgr. Michaela \u0160m\u00eddov\u00e1<\/strong>, Ph.D.<\/p>\n Deputy Director<\/p>\n 739 203 724<\/p>\n smidova@csvs.cz<\/p>\n Michaela \u0160m\u00eddov\u00e1 focuses on values of students, classification and ranking of HEIs and the social cohesion of Czech society in the European context. Moreover, she also deals with statistical data processing and analysis. She studied anthropology at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University. After five years of working as a researcher at CESES FSV UK she joined CHES in 2010.<\/p>\n Marta \u0160lemendov\u00e1<\/strong><\/p>\n Secretary<\/p>\n 739 203 723<\/p>\n csvs@csvs.cz<\/p>\n Research team<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong> 739 203 726<\/p>\n benes@csvs.cz<\/p>\n Josef Bene\u0161 deals with institutional and programmatic diversification, three-cycle degree structure in connection with the success of studies or the cooperation of HEIs with external partners. In the nineties he worked in a group of HEIs and science at MEYS, at Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, and at the Institute of Thermomechanics Czech Academy of Sciences. During this time, he also supported the establishment of joint workplaces of Czech Academy of Sciences institutes and HEIs for educating students, especially Ph.D. students. He participated in many project and research teams.<\/p>\n Mgr. et Mgr. Jan Beseda<\/strong>, Ph.D.<\/p>\n (also, data protection officer GDPR)<\/p>\n 739 203 725<\/p>\n beseda@csvs.cz<\/p>\n Jan Beseda graduated in media studies and anthropology at the Charles University and he has been working in CHES for more than 10 years. His focus is on the quality of education, media anthropology, cyber-anthropology and the impact of information and communication technologies on tertiary education. He leads the National Centre for Distance Education and is involved in many international projects. Furthermore, he organizes the DisCo conference devoted to the digitization of education and is the deputy chairman of the Czech Association of Distance Teaching Universities.<\/p>\n Dr. Filip Bl\u00e1ha<\/strong><\/p>\n 739 203 725<\/p>\n blaha@csvs.cz<\/p>\n Filip Bl\u00e1ha completed a postgraduate study in economics and social history at TU Dresden. Before coming to CHES he was a lecturer and consultant on European funds. Some of his interests are EU\u2019s social and educational policy, grant support for research, development and innovation and project management.<\/p>\n PhDr. Mgr. Karel Hanu\u0161<\/strong>, Ph.D<\/p>\n Karel Hanu\u0161 focuses on the policy on educational issues of the European Commission. Prior to that, he worked at the Charles University rectorate in the Department of Analyses and Strategies. He graduated in sociology and Ibero-American Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, and during his Ph.D. study in sociology at the same faculty he focused on the Swedish welfare state.<\/p>\n Mgr. Lucie H\u00fcndlov\u00e1<\/strong><\/p>\n Lucie H\u00fcndlov\u00e1 focuses on the access to tertiary education. She dealt with the influence of students on making decisions at HEIs. She studied demography at Faculty of Science, Charles University. Since 2008 she works for CHES and currently she is fully dedicated to parenting.<\/p>\n Mgr. Jan Kohoutek<\/strong>, Ph.D.<\/p>\n 739 203 725<\/p>\n kohoutek@csvs.cz<\/p>\n During the fifteen years of working for CHES, Jan Kohoutek is mostly involved in the research on quality assurance mechanisms, the role of HEIs in society and the implementation of higher education policies in general. He participated in several significant international projects (EU, OECS, Norway Grants) and published the results in the following international, peer-reviewed journals: Higher Education Policy, Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, Higher Education Quarterly<\/em>and Quality in Higher Education<\/em>. He earned a Ph.D. in public and social policy at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University.<\/p>\n Ing. Jana Kore\u010dkov\u00e1<\/strong><\/p>\n 739 203 725<\/p>\n koreckova@csvs.cz<\/p>\n Jana Kore\u010dkov\u00e1 joined CHES in 2018 with experience in a completely different field (finance \u2013 insurance), an open mind, strong analytical thinking skills, consistency and persistence. She has the courage and desire to discover original solutions and new ways, which will be truly useful and practical for the society as a whole, schools, companies, individuals, and she is honest in the search process.<\/p>\n Mgr. V\u00edt\u011bzslav Lounek<\/strong><\/p>\n 739 203 725<\/p>\n lounek@csvs.cz<\/p>\n V\u00edt\u011bzslav Lounek works for CHES since the year 2019. Prior to CHES, he focused on the system of educating social service workers at the Fond for Further Education, a funded organization of Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. Currently, he deals with quantitative data analysis and methodology of social sciences. He graduated in social informatics at the Masaryk University and in sociology at the University of West Bohemia.<\/p>\n Ing. Libor Prudk\u00fd<\/strong>, Ph.D.<\/p>\n prudom@pointpraha.cz<\/p>\n Libor Prudk\u00fd is a coauthor of the summarizing publication From elite to universal education 1989-2009 <\/em>about Czech HEIs and of many publications dedicated to the sociology of values. He engages in empirical sociology and sociological research on values and norms of behavior. Furthermore, he focused on the sociology of education and the three-cycle degree structure. He has been working in CHES since 2010.<\/p>\n Ing. Vladim\u00edr Roskovec<\/strong>, CSc.<\/p>\n 739 203 726<\/p>\n roskovec@csvs.cz<\/p>\n Until 1989 Vladim\u00edr Roskovec engaged in research on physics, since 1990 he was an Executive Director and later the first Deputy Minister at MEYS. For a long time, he has been focusing on the functioning of higher education systems in the Czech Republic, their financing and quality assurance. In 2002 he joined CHES, where he also was Deputy Director.<\/p>\n Mgr. Jan Sedl\u00e1\u010dek<\/strong>, Ph.D.<\/p>\n 739 203 725<\/p>\n sedlacek@csvs.cz<\/p>\n Jan Sedl\u00e1\u010dek works for CHES since 2018 and is involved in projects focusing on examining unsuccessfulness of HEI\u2019s students and the employment of HEI\u2019s graduates on the labour market. He studied European Studies at the Faculty of International Relations, University of Economics, Prague. He also engages in administration and management of HEIs.<\/p>\n PhDr. Mari\u00e1n Seker\u00e1k<\/strong>, Ph.D.<\/p>\n 739 203 725<\/p>\n sekerak@csvs.cz<\/p>\n Mari\u00e1n Seker\u00e1k studied political science at the Matej Bel University (Slovak Republic) and graduated at the Institute of Political Studies of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University (Czech Republic). He gives lectures at The College AMBIS and he also provides political analysis. He specializes in political theory, theory of democracy, diplomatic activities of the Holy See and some theological questions. In 2016 he was on a research stay at the Heinrich Heine University D\u00fcsseldorf and in 2018 he was a trainee at the European Parliament.<\/p>\n Ing. Helena \u0160ebkov\u00e1<\/strong>, CSc.<\/p>\n 739 203 726<\/p>\n sebkova@csvs.cz<\/p>\n Helena \u0160ebkov\u00e1 is one of the experts on quality assurance at HEIs, institutional and programmatic diversification and the three-cycle degree structure. She also deals with the cooperation between HEIs and external partners. She has led major international projects. Furthermore, she was a long-time Director of CHES and the editor in chief of the journal AULA.<\/p>\n Mgr. Karel \u0160ima<\/strong>, Ph.D.<\/p>\n sima@csvs.cz<\/p>\n For a long time, Karel \u0160ima has been involved in various areas of higher education research and policy, especially the massification of the higher education system, Humboldtian model of higher education, ethnographies of higher education, quantitative aspects of the higher education system, funding and evaluation of science and more. He is a coauthor of three monographs concerning these topics and a number of journal studies. Furthermore, he worked as an expert for MEYS, European Commission, Czech universities, etc. and participated in many international research and expert projects. He works for CHES as an external collaborator.<\/p>\n Support team<\/strong><\/p>\n Ing. Ljubov Had\u00e1\u010dkov\u00e1<\/strong><\/p>\n 739 203 727<\/p>\n hadackova@csvs.cz<\/p>\n Accountant<\/p>\n Economist<\/p>\n Ing. Jan Koller<\/strong>, Ph.D.<\/p>\n koller@csvs.cz<\/p>\n IT<\/p>\n Josef Volmut<\/strong><\/p>\n 602 170 105<\/p>\n volmut@csvs.cz<\/p>\n IT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ing. Radim Ry\u0161ka, Ph.D. Director of CHES 739 203 722 ryska@csvs.cz For a long time, Radim Ry\u0161ka has been focusing on the relationship between higher education and society, specifically the demand for graduates on the labour market, the evaluation of their gained education and the functioning of higher education systems. Prior to CHES, he worked for more than 15 years in the Education Policy Centre of the Charles University. He has extensive… <\/p>\n
\nIng. Josef Bene\u0161<\/strong>, CSc.<\/p>\n