153-0327/01 – Economics of Education and Culture (EVZK)
| Gurantor department | Department of Public Economics | Credits | 4 |
| Subject guarantor | Ing. Bc. Jiří Bečica, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | Ing. Bc. Jiří Bečica, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 2 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2004/2005 | Year of cancellation | 2024/2025 |
| Intended for the faculties | EKF | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
• analyse sources, principles and mecanisms of financing activities in the
sphere of education and culture in OECD-EU countries
• show contrasts in financing legal entities depending on the flunder in the
sphere of education and culture in the Czech Republic
• explain the principles of legal entities management in the sphere of
education and culture in the Czech Republic
• discuss and suggest measurements to raise efficiency of administration,
financing and financial management of legal entities in the sphere of
education and culture in the Czech Republic
Teaching methods
Lectures
Tutorials
Practical training
Summary
The course introduces basic economic categories in the field of education (formal mainly), their relations and practical application in conditions of education in the Czech Republic comparing to practice of developed economics. It is focused on social and economic context of education (factors of demand for education, indicators of education), economic and social functions of education, macroeconomic and microeconomic effects, factors influencing the share and extent of public and private expenditures on education, nature of administration.
There are covered all levels of education from pre-primary to tertiary ones that are applied within a network of regional schools and colleges (or universities) – administration and founders of schools and school facilities, resources and principles of establishing, financial management of schools in relation to founder and legal form).
In a similar structure, there are explained basic economic categories and relations in the area of culture.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Additional study materials
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
test
E-learning
Other requirements
activities at the tutorials
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Social and economic context of education. Functions and effects of
education. Financial and human investments in education
(factors of demand for education, indicators of education, economic and
social functions, macro- and microeconomic effects of education,
criteria of effectiveness, inner rates of education benefits, factors
influencing expenditures on education, and levels of education).
2. Public and private expenditures on education
(economic foundations, structure and resources of expenditures, influence
of factors corresponding to supply and demand for public and private
expenditures, public subsidies to households).
3. Administration, founders and legal form of school in “regional education”
in the Czech Republic
(structure of founders and their competences, forms of financial
management of organization according to type of founder, relation between
founder and financing of the organization, remuneration for education).
4.-5. Principles of financing the investment and non-investment expenditures
in “regional education in the Czech Republic
(main and supplementary activities, incomes and expenses, costs, revenues,
financial funds, relation of investment expenditures to financial
management of the organization, acquisition of investment and property
management, normative and non-normative financing – construction of
norms, creation of salaries, extra-budgetary resources of financing,
fundraising, pays for productive activities of pupils).
6.-7.Administration, founders and financing of colleges (universities),
management of colleges in the Czech Republic
(structure, founders and legal form, incomes and expenses, costs and
revenues of colleges, budget, state subsidies, funds of colleges and
their resources, college property, remuneration, payment for education
and services).
8. Culture and approaches to its concept
(definition of culture, approaches to culture, models of culture, dividing
of culture. Culture processes. Cultural institutions and products.
Dividing of cultural activities. Effectiveness in area of culture.
Allocation of financial funds in culture. Cultural policy. Models of
culture administration. European priorities in culture).
9. Administration, founders and legal forms of cultural institutions. Public
policy in culture in the Czech Republic.
(Organizational and institutional ensuring of culture. Financing of
culture – direct and indirect support, own resources. Selected resources
of financing cultural branches. Development and current state of cultural
policy in the Czech Republic. Reform of public administration and public
budgets in terms of cultural policy. CR participation in EU programmes.)
10. Heritage preservation. Observatories and planetariums. Museums and
galleries.
(Organizational and institutional framework. Financing of care of cultural
relics. Association of historical settlements in Bohemia, Moravia and
Silesia. Financing and management of observatories and planetariums.
Association of observations and planetariums. Financing and management of
museums and galleries. Association of museums and galleries.)
11.Libraries. Theatres and art ensembles. Regional and national culture.
(Organizational and institutional framework. Financing and management of
libraries. Association of libraries of CR colleges. Financing and
management of theatres and other art ensembles. Role, importance and
financing of regional and national culture.)
12.Mass media in culture. Professional art. Churches and religious
communities.
(Organizational and institutional framework. Cinematography. Television
and radio. Print. Financing of television and radio broadcasting.
Characteristics of churches and religious communities and their economic
ensuring.)
13. Aspects of cultural policies in Europe.
(Aspects of cultural policy in European countries – diversities, cultural
heritage, care of cultural heritage. UNESCO and its role in culture and
cultural policy. Findings of the study “Economy of Culture in Europe”.
Measurable and immeasurable benefits of culture. Models of financing
cultural branches. EU programmes in culture and audiovisual sector.
Cultural agreements, foreign relations of the Ministry of Culture of the
Czech Republic).
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction