Plzen law students fear for their future education

Over 300 students from the Plzen faculty of law on Wednesday staged another protest against the decision of the Czech Accreditation Commission not to extend the accreditation of the law faculty’s undergraduate programme, effectively closing down the school after this autumn. The coordinator of the protest Petra Brezinova expressed grave concern over the fate of the faculty’s 1,500 law students who will now have to conclude their studies in one of the countries three other law faculties. No agreement on how this is to be done has as yet been reached and there are fears that many of them may end up at labour offices in the autumn. The Education Ministry which is not in a position to overturn the verdict of the Accreditation Commission has promised to assist the process of transferring the faculty’s students elsewhere. The outcome of negotiations is expected to be made known at the end of February.

Author: Dominik Jůn