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INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANISATIONS OPERATING IN EDUCATION SECTOR
Ministry of Education - www.minedu.skMinister: Ján Mikolaj
Quote of the Week
“The only way to clear my name is to give up my deputy’s mandate.”
Prešov polling for its ‘traditional taste’
THE PREŠOV regional government (PSK) has announced a new poll in which citizens of the region can suggest and vote for their favourite gastronomic specialties from this part of Slovakia. PSK spokesperson Veronika Fitzeková told the TASR newswire that suggestions and recipes for the ‘Traditional Taste of the Prešov Region’ should be sent by e-mail to the address published on the office’s website before the end of May 2009.
Forget law or teaching, IT experts are now ‘in’
EMPLOYERS do not want lawyers any more. The most wanted professional is the IT expert. This is the conclusion from the latest study by the Academic Rating and Ranking Agency and the internet job portal profesia.sk, wrote the Hospodárske Noviny (HN) financial daily in mid-April. The study evaluated the level of interest by companies in university graduates who had put their CVs on this job portal.
LINKS BETWEEN BUSINESS AND ACADEMIA IN SLOVAKIA – some examples
Aurel Stodola Energy Award- awarded by Slovenské Elektrárne in cooperation with the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava for the best bachelors', masters' and PhD theses.
Up! to be labelled ‘Made in Slovakia’
VOLKSWAGEN Slovakia (VW SK) has welcomed the decision by its parent company to produce the new Up! model in the Devínska Nová Ves plant adjacent to Bratislava.
Learning more about auditing from the Big 4
AUDITING is not only checking out the numbers on a balance sheet. The job of an auditor is much more, embracing aspects related to the financial crisis, other financial statements and fraud.
Education minister’s plan gets scant support
CHANGES in the Slovak university education system seem never to be quite sufficient. At the same time, any proposed change in the rules governing the universities is accompanied by passionate discussions not only in the political arena but also among the wider public.
Firms are getting involved
AN EDUCATED labour force is one of the most precious assets a company has. Firms in Slovakia, which until the crisis struck with full force were loudly complaining about a shortage of qualified labour, are well aware of this. In order to have a pool from which to select workers able to meet their requirements, companies have started to establish relationships in the education system, work on scientific and research projects with schools, and support students either by granting awards and scholarships, or in other ways.
The towers and attics of Štiavnica revealed
ANOTHER book from the environs of Banská Štavnica, the historical mining town in central Slovakia, has come to bookstores. The festive launch of the new book called Štiavnické veže (Štavnica Towers) was held on April 17.
Sokol retires as archbishop of Trnava
POPE Benedict XVI accepted the resignation of Ján Sokol, the archbishop of Trnava, on April 18. Robert Bezák, a priest from the Banská Bystrica diocese, has been chosen to replace him.
Forget about EU funding
IMAGINE that you owned a small vodka distillery, and that the labels on your bottles are often damaged by workers as they handle the product. You might decide to buy a machine that will prevent damage to the labels, and thus make your company more competitive. You might also hire an experienced adviser to draw up a project, and with this project apply for Sk2 million (€65,000) in European Union funds from the Ministry of Economy.
Slovak tinker art goes on show in Komárno
VISITORS to the Podunajské Museum in Komárno can now see an exhibition on tinker craftwork past and present.
Skrat
DID YOU just have a short circuit? In Slovak, this term encompasses not only personal vehicles, garden gear, and home appliances. It stretches out to the realms of psychology. And sometimes politics.
Three MPs leave SMK caucus
THE FORMER leader of the Hungarian Coalition Party (SMK), Béla Bugár, together with two other MPs in the Slovak Parliament, László Nagy and Gábor Gál, left the party’s parliamentary caucus on April 22, but said that they would not quit the party for now.
Radičová resigns as MP
FORMER presidential candidate Iveta Radičová, who was supported by the main opposition parliamentary parties in this year’s presidential election, is no longer an MP. She gave up her mandate on April 23 after admitting casting a vote in parliament in the name of a party colleague, Tatiana Rosová, on April 21. Doing so is technically a violation of parliamentary regulations.
Strong opinions
“THE WORST of their deeds we will never know; that we must be prepared to accept, to know the worst, we will have to extrapolate and use the imagination. The worst is likely be whatever we think them capable of (capable of ordering, capable of turning a blind eye to); and what they are capable of is, all too plainly, anything,” writes Mister C about those in power, with distinct contempt.
THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM IN SLOVAKIA
Universities in Slovakia: 35
After three robberies, man bags €30,000
AFTER two failed bank robberies in Bratislava on April 18, an as-yet unidentified perpetrator finally succeeded in stealing about €30,000.
MP Devínsky allegedly ŠtB collaborator
SDKÚ’s deputy in parliament and a former rector of Comenius University in Bratislava, Ferdinand Devínsky, collaborated with the ŠtB communist secret police, the Sme daily wrote on April 17. According to the daily, Devínsky was willing to collaborate because it was the only way for him to be able to travel to London for a research stay in 1986.
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