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Before 1989, the Czech higher education system was highly centralised, very small and elitist in nature. The development of tertiary education had stagnated and did not respond to the rising educational aspirations or to the demand for tertiary education. It can be defined as a unitary system of traditional university education that offered only Master degrees. Because of the low income returns to higher education and the orientation of the economy towards heavy industry there was little motivation to study at university on the part of less educated lower classes (for educated higher classes a degree was a way of maintaining their social status) and little demand on the labour market. After 1989, a need for shorter and vocationally oriented types of tertiary education emerged. However, in the first half of the 1990s, tertiary education still consisted only of traditional universities focusing on cademically-oriented studies. It was necessarily selective, and its limited capacity could not satisfy demand.
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Ryška, R., Zelenka, M. (2011). Professional Success Due to Scarcity? Bachelor Graduates in the Czech Republic. In: Schomburg, H., Teichler, U. (eds) Employability and Mobility of Bachelor Graduates in Europe. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-570-3_3
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