Czech universities will reportedly gain additional 290 million crowns in state budget

Czech universities are set to receive an additional 290 million crowns in the state budget for 2017 bringing the total amount of funds to more than 21 billion Education Minister Kateřina Valachová has confirmed after negotiations with the Finance Ministry. The decision will still have to be approved by the cabinet next week. The budget for the country’s institutions of higher learning will thus be slightly higher – a difference in the tens of millions – than it was for 2016. The minister said that the means of allotting the funds as one sum, entirely within the state budget, would provide stability.

Author: Jan Velinger