BUILDING HUMAN CAPITAL: THE IMPACT OF PARENTS´ INITIAL EDUCATIONAL LEVEL AND LIFELONG LEARNING ON THEIR CHILDREN

The aim of this paper is to examine the impact of parents´ educational level on lifelong learning of children and relationship between parents´ and student´ lifelong learning including language skills and computer literacy. This intergenerational transmission, if proven, could influence the investments into the human capital in the long run. We used data from Adult Education Survey 2011 (AES) to test the hypothesis that the parental attained level of education has a significant impact on the initial educational level of their children as well as on their lifelong learning participation. Furthermore, using data from AES, we tested the association between parental educational level and children´s language skills and reading activity and between parental non-formal as well as informal education and students´ lifelong learning. We have found that the parental effect on lifelong learning participation is slightly weaker than the effect of initial adult´s education. Nevertheless, the intergenerational transmission mechanism obviously works. The relationship between parental and students computer literacy is statistically significant, nevertheless weak. As for the nominal and ordinal character of the data, we used mainly the standard statistical methods including nonparametric tests, logit model and correspondence analysis

MACROECONOMIC IMPACT OF EXPENDITURES ON HIGHER EDUCATION: REGIONAL INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS

This paper deals with the regional input-output analysis and its application to evaluation of the macro-economic impact of expenditures on higher education. Regional input-output tables represent newly developed tool which can be used for the assessment of the regional economic impact of the particular industry and its institutions. The regional input-output tables were experimentally constructed by the Department of Economic Statistics at the University of Economics for all 14 Czech regions. Employing them, we can demonstrate the impact of expenditures on higher education on the macro-economic indicators and employment. This paper deals with 1 billion Czech crowns expenditures on higher education sent by the Ministry to the hypothetical higher education institution. Finally, the impact of higher education expenditures is compared with the impact of expenditures to another industries (ICT, R&D and tourism)

GIFTED STUDENTS AND HUMAN CAPITAL ACCUMULATION

The economic growth and well-being of the nation increasingly depends on the human capital. In our study we offer original findings based on our survey Talent 2016. We try to identify who the talented students are, which background they did come from and how the family background influenced them. Our paper provides clear evidence of human capital intergenerational transmission. The vertical immobility in the same generation as well as the vertical mobility between generations was observed. Most of the gifted students came from the complete highly educated families with tradition in their field of interest and long positive attitudes toward accumulating the knowledge. Contrarily, the role of the teachers in the support and guidance is negligible. We have shown that there is close relation between the gifted children premature reading ability and the accumulation of the human capital in their families. The same is valid for the attendance of the 8-years grammar schools. Based on our dataset, we do not observe the Galtonian regression toward the mean. For the future economic growth there must be offered a helping hand for the talented children with less educated family background

IS IT POSSIBLE TO ESTIMATE LABOUR PRODUCTIVITY IN THE CZECH HIGHER EDUCATION?

This paper deals with the issues of estimation of labour productivity in the Czech higher education institutions (HEIs) and also at the Faculties of Economics of the Czech HEIs. We focus on the period between the years 2006 and 2010. At first, we analyze the influence of labour productivity on the level of average wages of academic staff in 2010. In this case, we consider that the labour productivity consist of two parts – teaching productivity (the total number of students adjusted by the coefficient of economical difficulty per academic staff) and research productivity (the total number of publication points per academic staff). Secondly, we compare the changes between teaching productivity in the period between the years 2006 and 2010 and the changes between average wages adjusted of average inflation rate at the level of HEIs and at the level of the Faculties of Economics

THE WORK-STUDY DILEMMA OF CZECH UNDERGADUATES

The aim of this paper is to analyse the work-study dilemma of Czech students. We examine the impact of the work and study workload on the student’s expectations for their future labour market chances. For the future formal evaluation of Czech students’ workload, it is necessary to take into account if the students’ jobs are closely connected to their field of study, which make up the important part of their education. We used a unique dataset based on the survey EUROSTUDENT V to test this challenging question. We have found that Czech full-time students almost one full-time employment studying and working in one workweek. It was proven, that students who study very hard as well as students with in-branch experience are optimistic about their future labour prospects. Business-minded students especially prefer working hours to studying at school or at home. We did not discover the importance of family background to their workload with the exception of the labour-market perspectives. Furthermore we found considerable differences between men and women’s work experience during their studies. Finally, according to the solution of the WSDM model, we proved that while working hours are substitutes for hours spent at school, the role of self-study is irreplaceable

BRAIN DRAIN – BRAIN GAIN: SLOVAK STUDENTS AT CZECH UNIVERSITIES

The Slovak Republic is experiencing a growing brain drain of elite secondary school students. Slovak human capital flows chiefly to Czech Higher Education Institutes (HEIs). The aim of this paper is to analyse who these Slovak students are to create a complete profile of Slovak students at Czech HEIs. We used a unique dataset based on the surveys EUROSTUDENT V and DOKTORANDI 2014 to explore differences between Czech and Slovak students, their financial situation and the functionality of the intergenerational transmission mechanism. We have found that Slovak students at Czech HEIs come from highly educated families and from the middle and higher class families significantly more often than Czech students at Czech HEIs or Slovak students at Slovak HEIs. Approximately 80% of them came from grammar schools. Slovak students also often have better language skills. We have discovered that Slovak students at Czech HEIs enjoy certain social benefits, slightly more often they have higher monthly income compared to Czech students, and they work slightly less often during their studies. Finally, according to our findings, Slovak doctoral students are often reluctant to return back to the Slovak Republic or to stay in the Czech Republic

Private Rate of Return on Human Capital Investment in the Czech Republic: Differences by Study Fields

The paper is focused on approaches to the measurement of the returns of private investments on human capital in the Czech Republic. In the last ten years, there is observed a significant increase in number ofstudents at Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and an increasing number of HEIs graduates is also expected in the Czech Republic in forthcoming years. Using data from the research project “REFLEX”, fromthe Czech Statistical Office and from EUROSTUDENT IV survey, the paper provides the methodology and the experimental computations of the rates of return on private investment in the tertiary education broken down by study fields

Melancholia, disease, madness – the complex of Old Polish metaphysical poet: ideas, inspirations, motifs, attitudes

On the basis of the sixteenth and seventeenth-century discussions about the poetic inspiration, the poet’s mental state, developed naturalistic and psychological ideas of poetic madness, categorizing a state of mind, soul, and imagination of the poet. The source for these considerations were primarily Aristotle’s writings and theories, concepts, moreover theories of four humors and four temperaments. Among the theoreticians of the Renaissance and Baroque literature, in the thoughts of madness (as a form of poetic and divine madness, mania, enthusiasm) central gained concept of melancholia. The form of melancholia was useful to explain, define and classify a number of phenomena relating to madness in a wide mental, somatic and symbolic dimension. A very interesting interpretation of the melancholia presented polish philosopher and translator Sebastian Petrycy. In his translation and appendages to the Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (Przydatki do Etyki Arystotelesowej, 1618) melancholy is defined, based on the ancient idea, as a source of both wit and wisdom (as a gift from God) and madness (Dionysian, divine, poetic and erotic). The early Baroque theory of melancholia can be useful to understand and analyse Old Polish metaphysical poetry (Rymy duchowne of Sebastian Grabowiecki and metaphysical poems of Kasper Twardowski). In Old Polish metaphysical poetry there is full of ideas, themes, motifs and symbols coincide with the concept of melancholia. The idea of melancholia allows us to understand more deeply characteristic and specific topics of metaphysical poetry (sin / disease / distress / madness), themes (poet / madman / prophet), ideas (madness and loss of sense as an introduction to meditation) and attitudes (poet experienced by the symbolic, mythical, real and fictional madness). The problem of melancholia allows us to specify an unusual phenomenon – the complex of metaphysical poet – to understand a man who was “distraught”, a man “poisoned”, homo (poeta) melancholicus.This article tends to analyse the problems concerning the reception of ancient theory of melancholia, especially in renaissance and early Baroque literary studies. The melancholia as disease, habit, fear, cognition, meditation, inspiration and sin, is also very inspiring idea, allowing to understand the essence of Old Polish metaphysical poetry, in particular the complex of metaphysical poet – his behaviour, reasons, inspirations and attitudes.Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latina

Students Who Have Unsuccessfully Studied in the Past – Analysis of Causes

With the increase in the number of university students, the number of those who do not finish successfully the tertiary education is also increasing. The article uses a specific data source and analyses only a part of the group of unsuccessful students who re-enroll. This is a specific group of students - they did not finish the tertiary study in the past, but after some time they returned to education. The aim of the paper is to find significant factors that influence the decision whether the student changes the studied school or field of study. Factors will be searched using decision trees and binary logistic regression. Both methods were significant for gender and the fact that a student is studying his preferred university. Logistic regression adds to the student's health disadvantage. The data were obtained from the EUROSTUDENT survey, which was held in the Czech Republic in 2016 under the auspices of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports. The results can be used to identify a risky candidate or student at the beginning of tertiary education

Improvement of safe bromine electrolytes and their cell performance in H2_{2}/Br2_{2} flow batteries caused by tuning the bromine complexation equilibrium

Hydrogen bromine redox flow batteries utilize bromine electrolytes in their positive half cell, offering capacities larger than 100 Ah L$^{-1}$. Addition of quaternary ammonium compounds, so-called bromine complexing agents (BCA), may increase safety as they reduce the vapour pressure of bromine in the posolyte. However, they have not been applied so far. They (a) interact with perfluorosulfonic acid membranes leading to significant reduction of membrane conductivity and (b) they form a low conductive ionic liquid with polybromides, leading to high overvoltage if the formation happens at the electrode. In this work a solution to this problem is proposed by an excess addition of Br$_{2}$ to these electrolytes. The excess bromine leads to a permanent bromine fused salt phase in the tank. Bromine formed in the cell stays in the aqueous phase and bromine transfer between the two phases happens in the tank. Transfer of Br2 without the transfer of [BCA]$^{+}$ cations exists between the phases, while [C2Py]$^{+}$ cations remain in the fused salt and do not influence cell performance. For the first time a posolyte capacity of 179.6 Ah L$^{-1}$ based on 7.7 M hydrobromic acid with BCA is achieved compared to previous investigations with e.g. 53.9 Ah L$^{-1}$