Key words:

Educational Services, Lifelong Learning Program, cultural services, cultural policy instruments, Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, health services

 Chapter objectives:

• acquiring knowledge about educational services,
• understanding the importance of cultural services,
• getting acquainted with the concepts of health service.

 Time required to study the chapter: 8 hours

 Interpretation:

Educational services:

1. Every citizen has the right to education. School attendance is mandatory for the time period stipulated by the act.
2. Citizens have the right to free education at elementary and secondary schools, according to the capabilities of the citizen and the possibilities of the society at universities as well.

Lifelong Learning Program 2007 - 2013

The program has four main fields:

• Comenius,
• Erasmus,
• Leonardo da Vinci,
• Grundtvig.

Legislation:

In the Czech Republic, the field of education is treated in the following legislations:

A. Act No. 561/2004 Coll., On pre-school, elementary, secondary, higher and other education (Education Act),

B. Act No. 562/2004 Coll., Amending certain acts related to the adoption of the Education Act,

C. Act No. 563/2004 Coll., On Teaching Staff,

D. Act No. 306/1999 Coll., On granting subsidies to private schools, pre-schools and school facilities,

E. Act No. 109/2002 Coll., On the performance of institutional education or protective education in school facilities and on preventive educational care.

F. Act No. 111/1998 Coll., On universities.

 

Cultural services:

Public cultural services are services consisting in making the artistic creation and cultural heritage available to the public and in the acquisition, processing, protection, preservation and disclosure of information that serves the cultural, cultural-upbringing or cultural-educational needs to the public.

Three experimental programs were created by the European Commission for cultural cooperation between Member States:

• Kaleidoscope,
• Raphael,
• Ariane.

Cultural policy instruments:

• Legislative,
• Economic,
• Institutional,
• Managing,
• Methodical.

State administration

State administration at the central level is carried out by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, which includes following fields:

• art,
• cultural and educational activities and monuments,
• churches and religious societies,
• printing,
• implementing the Copyright Act,
• and other.

 

Health services:

In the Czech Republic, health services are regulated by Act No. 372/2011 Coll. On health services and the conditions for their providing.

Health services are understood as:

a) providing the health care by healthcare professionals, 

b) consultation services to assess the individual treatment process, 

c) handling the deceased's body, including transferring the deceased's body to a pathological-anatomical autopsy,

d) medical rescue service,

e) medical transport service,

f) transportation of emergency care patients.

 

 Study materials:

Basic literature:

HALÁSEK, Dušan. Ekonomika veřejného sektoru. 1. ed. VSB-Technical University Ostrava, Czech Republic. 2008. IV, 230 p. ISBN 9788024818542.

Recommended study materials:

DOLEŽELOVÁ, H., HALÁSEK, D. Služby v obecném hospodářském zájmu v EU - Komparace České republiky a Německa. Department of Public Economics Faculty of Economics, VSB-Technical University Ostrava, Czech Republic. 2011. ISBN 978-80-248-2371-3.

VAŠTÍKOVÁ, M. Marketing služeb. Grada Publishing, Prague, Czech Republic 2008., 232 p. ISBN 978-80-247-2721-9.
 

Questions and tasks

1.    The Lifelong Learning Program 2007 - 2013 has four main fields. It does not include:
Erasmus 
Leonardo da Vinci 
White book

2.    In the Czech Republic, the field of education is treated in several legislations. It does not include:
Act No. 109/2002 Coll., On the performance of institutional education or protective education in school facilities and on preventive educational care.
Act No. 100/1999 Coll., On secondary schools
Act No. 561/2004 Coll., On pre-school, elementary, secondary, higher and other education (Education Act)

3.    Public cultural services are:
services based on the objectives of the National Education Development Program in the Czech Republic
services consisting in making the artistic creation and cultural heritage available to the public and in the acquisition, processing, protection, preservation and disclosure of information that serves the cultural, cultural-upbringing or cultural-educational needs to the public. 
consulting services to assess the individual cultural process

4.    State administration at the central level in the Czech Republic in the field of cultural services is carried out by the:
Office for Cultural Services
Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic 
Office for Culture

5.    In the Czech Republic, health services are regulated by the:
Act No. 54/1956 Coll., On Health Insurance of Employees
Act No. 100/1988 Coll., On Social Security
Act No. 372/2011 Coll. On health services and the conditions for their providing

 

 

 

Key to solve the questions:

1.      C
2.      B
3.      B
4.      B
5.     C