Press releases

2021

Online National Comparative Exams taken by almost 23 thousand candidates

(1 July 2021) The Covid-19 pandemic has not diminished interest in higher education, quite the contrary. While less than 21,000 candidates took the National Comparative Exams last school year (2019/2020), which are used by more than 50 Czech and 30 Slovak faculties as part of their admission procedure, this was 22,630 this year...

 

Scio also helps children in Moravia

(21 July 2021) Scio helped almost forty students from socially disadvantaged families connect to the internet and thereby distance learning during the past school year...

 

Freddy set to conquer the Polish market

(Prague, 14 June 2021) Emoshees, a Czech phenomenon in toys, are heading to the Polish market, with the help of the CzechTrade agency. Almost 20,000 of these educational toys have already been sold in the Czech Republic and Germany, and more than 2,000 are used by kindergartens and primary schools, as well as pedagogical and psychological counselling centres in their work with children...

 

Sixth and ninth graders on distance learning – there are differences, but nothing too dramatic

(Prague, 4 February 2021) How kids of different ages, their parents and teachers rate distance learning can be seen by comparing the results of an extensive questionnaire survey of 6th and 9th graders.