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Current AffairsScandal-plagued Plzeň law faculty will have to close its doors
The scandal-plagued Plzeň faculty of law appears to have come to the end of
the road. On Wednesday the Czech Accreditation Commission announced that
the West-Bohemian law faculty’s undergraduate programme had failed to
pass muster and its accreditation would not be extended past this autumn.
On Thursday some 300 of the faculty’s 2,000 students gathered outside
their school to protest against the decision and have appealed to Education
Minister Josef Dobeš to intervene. However their chances of success are
meager, since under Czech law the minister is not in a position to question
the verdict of the accreditation commission. We spoke to its chairwoman
prof. Vladimíra Dvořáková to find out what was behind the commission’s
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Czechs TodayCzech archaeologists uncover Stone Age tools in Arbil, Iraq
Czech archaeologists are best-known for their work in Egypt, spanning five
decades, but some specialists have begun making headlines for excavation
work in a different part of the world: Mesopotamia – the cradle of
ancient civilisation that is now present-day Iraq. Recently an eight-member
team headed by Karel Nováček of the University of West Bohemia, returned
from northern Iraq after having uncovered Stone Age tools that were used by
either our ancestors or our distant relatives (Homo neanderthalensis). The
tools date back some 150,000 years, to the Middle Palaeolithic, the oldest
find of its kind in the city of Arbil in Kurdistan.
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