Doctoral Degree Programme
                                         Development Plan


                     Identification of the evaluated doctoral degree programme


Name of the programme

                     Economics, Ekonomie

Guarantor

                     Doc. Ing. Rostislav Staněk Ph.D.

Form


Language

                     English, Czech

Faculty

                     Faculty of Economics and Administration


                               Information on the evaluation meeting


Date of the On-Site Visit: 12-14 October 2022

Members of the Evaluation Panel:

                                Institution

Jaromír Kovářík (chair)

                                University of the Basque Country

Renáta Kosová

                                Imperial College London – Business School

Emma Galli

                                Sapienza University of Rome

Jana Fidrmuc-Palagova

                                University of Warwick – Warwick Business School

Tom Broekel

                                University of Stavanger Business School


Date of the separate meeting with students of the evaluated degree programme: 13 October 2022


Student representatives:

 Michaela Kecskésová













                            Doctoral Degree Programme Development Plan


Based on the outputs of the Evaluation Report and On-Site Visit, the following objectives have been
identified and formulated for the further development of the evaluated doctoral degree programme
(please indicate the objective of the doctoral degree programme development, the proposed measures,
and the expected date of implementation of the measures).

Summarizing comments:

The evaluators acknowledge a good dynamic and direction of the PhD programme. Their recommendations
include reducing the number of PhD programmes, developing a coherent course-based programme, spread
supervision more equally across faculty members, eliminate the 1 publication requirement, increase
the compulsory length of the foreign stay.

The recommendations of the supervisors can be mostly decided only at the faculty-level. The
development of the US style two-year course-based PhD programme seems to be too costly, and we opt
to follow a strategy of European PhD programmes with limited number of courses and ad-hoc training
at summer schools or nearby Universities. We agree that the number of students per supervisors
should be less than five and the PhD board will take that into account when approving PhD topics.
We also encourage students to spend more than one month at foreign stay. However, we do not opt for
making that strict requirement due to different motivations of the students and limited amount of
funds.

The faculty will discuss the reduction of the number of PhD programmes

Structured chart:


The objective of the degree
programme development*

Measures leading to the
objective implementation

Implementation of measures

(year or cycle)

Limiting number of students per supervisor to three


Continuously

Encouraging students to attend PhD courses at nearby Universities (Prague, Vienna)


Continuously







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