Israeli psychologist Dr. Yosef Mahagna has very strong ties with the Czech Republic, where he studied. He divides his free time between his family and promoting the Czech Republic. We conducted the interview in Czech, the language the fifty-five-year-old doctor learned at the age of twenty at the ÚJOP preparatory programme in Poděbrady.
15 April 2024
The Poděbrady study centre regularly observes Czech traditions, and so at Easter as well, the atmosphere of the classroom becomes festive. Our students experienced a program full of interesting activities and surprises that brought Czech culture closer to them.
6 April 2024
To advance and extend your education above and beyond your studies or after graduation. This is the main idea behind the certified education initiated by the European Commission. Successful graduates of such courses will receive a new type of certificate - a microcertificate, which will increase their competitiveness on the labour market. The first fourteen microcertificates at Charles University were awarded on 25 January by the Institute for Language and Preparatory Studies.
6 March 2024
They want to become a doctor and help people, but first they decided to join the preparatory programme for medical and pharmacy studies at the Institute for Language and Preparatory Studies. Now the students are facing a difficult decision as to which of the medical faculties in the Czech Republic they choose for their study. A visit to the Faculty of Medicine of Charles University in Hradec Králové helped them to get acquainted with the study conditions and student life.
20 February 2024
On the Czech music scene, guitarist and composer Igor Ochepovsky has been described as the biggest discovery of recent years. His name is his trademark and the Ochepovsky Project band is evolving along with its bearer. The musical influences range from jazz to classical music to groove, but one thing remains - this is a dream band. One of the most successful graduates of a one-year course at the Institute for Language and Preparatory Studies talked to us about music and Czech.
12 February 2024
The Erasmus+ programme offers an opportunity for professional growth not only for students but also for university staff members. Recently, employees of five partner institutions took advantage of the unique opportunity to participate in the Practical English for Staff course, where they spent a week improving their communication skills in English.
8 February 2024
Although temperatures are freezing outside and spring still seems far away, the summer semester of the 2023/2024 academic year has begun for more than 126 students from 40 different countries across six continents. Petra Landergott Kalvínská, head of the Prague study centre, greeted the students of Czech language courses at the Institute for Language and Preparatory Studies of Charles University.
1 February 2024
It is the love of the Czech language and the intensive language course they took together in the winter semester that unites students from Vietnam, Korea, Thailand, Japan, Chile, Australia and America. For almost five months, more than 160 students from 36 countries from all over the world successfully worked on their language skills every day at the Voršilská study centre in the centre of Prague.
21 January 2024
Hundreds of tourists stream down the castle steps to Klárov every day after visiting the most beautiful gem of Prague architecture, the Prague Castle. And it is right there that they arrive at the new jewel - Zenger's transformation station, which after reconstruction has been converted into a new cultural venue known as Kunsthalle Praha. It is no wonder that it has become the destination of excursions for students of art and architecture and raised the interest of students of humanities at the Institute for Language and Preparatory Studies of Charles University.
14 December 2023
At noon, the Emmaus abbey Na Slovanech rang with the tones of classical and modern music. On Thursday, 7 December, the 29th musical matinee of the Institute for Language and Preparatory Studies (ÚJOP UK) took place.The concert featured talented, both current and former students of the preparatory and language courses. As diverse as the multinational mix of the performers was, so too was their repertoire, which ranged from works by J. S. Bach to ABBA.
8 December 2023
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