CHES joins international project to measure graduate competences

The Centre for Higher Education Studies (CHES) joins a new international project called ACME (EGCompetency), which aims to develop and test a tool for measuring the competences of HEIs‘ graduates. The project is being developed as a part of the Eurograduate 2026 initiative - a large-scale pan-European survey tracking the employability of university graduates. CHES will collaborate with research institutions from Portugal, France and Germany on the project.

June 6, 2025 / project, research

Barriers and opportunities for deepening cooperation between universities and companies

Centre for Higher Education Studies conducted an analysis aimed at identifying barriers and opportunities for cooperation between universities and companies in the Czech Republic. The project, commissioned by the Confederation of Industry and Transport of the Czech Republic ....

December 3, 2024 / project, research

Juxtaposing Acquired and Required Skills: Latent Class Analysis of Self-Assessment Scales in an International Survey

Using data from the EUROGRADUATE pilot survey, this study uses a series of latent class analyses to investigate what patterns of responses emerge from self-assessments of the skills acquired and required by higher education graduates, and how these patterns differ between the eight participating countries...

January 4, 2023 / study

Have you completed your studies at a Czech higher education institution in the academic years 2016/2017 to 2020/2021? Or are you a respondent to the „ABSOLVENT 2018“ (Absolvent meaning graduate) survey who agreed to be contacted again?

EUROGRADUATE 2022, running from 2022-2024, is the second phase of a European pilot survey of heigher education institution graduates running in seventeen European countries and building on EUROGRADUATE 2018, running in 2018-2019 in eight countries.

November 14, 2022 / EUROGRADUATE

5th National Summit on Professional Tertiary Education: Quality of Tertiary Education and Virtual Reality

Czech Association of Professional Tertiary Education in cooperation with the Centre for Higher Education Studies and Anglo-American University in Prague ...

October 7, 2022 / summit

The European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference took place in Innsbruck, Austria.

The results were recently published in Higher Education Policy (published by Springer), one of the leading academic journals in the field of higher education research...

August 29, 2022 / conference

The data collection of the EUROSTUDENT VIII in the Czech Republic – summary

The eighth round of the international EUROSTUDENT VIII survey took place in the summer semester of the academic year 2021/22 ...

August 14, 2022 / eurostudent

Micro-credentials – current status and expected future development from a global perspective

The role of micro-credentials from global perspective. A virtual conference organised within the framework of the DAAD Bologna Hub project provided an opportunity to discuss what challenges remain for the further implementation of these small learning units...

August 10, 2022 / micro-credentials

Socio-political trends in Swedish higher education 1945-2020

This paper focus on the development of the Swedish higher education system in the period 1945-2020 with special attention to its expansion...

August 8, 2022 / higher education, Sweden

The German study on counselling “Quo vadis Hochschulberatung?”

The organisation of two international workshops in 2020 and 2021 proved decisive for the development of the study on counselling...

July 1, 2022 / counselling