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Education

The overarching goal in the Education area is to ensure high-quality and accessible education at all levels, oriented to the needs of the labour market.

State budget expenditure 2027
CZK 287.8 bn draft state budget
Share of state budget
11.1%
Year-on-year change
+1.7%

State budget expenditure 2027 (draft): CZK 287.8 bn.

Topics and performance indicators

  • Pre-school education

    Goal: Ensure high-quality and accessible pre-school education for all children.

    • Participation rate of children aged 3–5 in nursery schools (%)
    • Municipalities with extended powers (ORP) with nursery school capacity occupancy above 90%
    • Share of qualified nursery school teachers (%)
  • Basic education

    Goal: Ensure high-quality and accessible basic education for all pupils.

    • Share of pupils leaving basic school before grade 9 (%)
    • Municipalities with extended powers (ORP) with basic school capacity occupancy above 85%
    • Share of qualified basic school teachers (%)
  • Secondary schools

    Goal: Ensure high-quality and accessible secondary education for all pupils, with an emphasis on developing general secondary education. Improve the quality of secondary schools with regard to the needs of the labour market.

    • Share of new entrants to general programmes (%)
    • Share of qualified secondary school teachers (%)
    • Unemployment rate of recent secondary school graduates (%)
  • Tertiary professional schools

    Goal: Improve the quality of tertiary professional schools with regard to the needs of the labour market. Support the diversity of tertiary education institutions.

    • Unemployment rate of recent tertiary professional school graduates (%)
    • Share of new entrants to tertiary professional schools (%)
  • Higher education institutions: CZK 47.6 bn

    Goal: Support timely successful completion of higher education. Improve the quality of higher education institutions with regard to the needs of the labour market.

    • Bachelor’s non-completion rate (%)
    • Share of persons with tertiary education in the population aged 25–34 (%)
    • Share of foreign students and graduates of higher education institutions (%)
  • Institutional and protective education

    Goal: Strengthen the prevention of socially pathological phenomena. Ensure effective institutional and protective education.

    • Share of pupils in institutional and protective education (%)
    • Change in occupancy of educational institutions for youth (%)
  • Research and development: CZK 8.8 bn

    No goals or performance indicators are set for the cross-cutting category.

  • Administration: CZK 1.5 bn

    No goals or performance indicators are set for the cross-cutting category.

  • Other

    No goals or performance indicators are set for the cross-cutting category.

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