The headline scandal at Nerudová. Former rector Zima adds context. Even scarier than it seemed
23/12/2022 21:42 | From networks
“Ms. Nerudova likened herself to a gamekeeper who caught a poacher. No way. She’s a gamer who shot herself in the leg and now she can bleed to death,” he says about presidential candidate Danuša Nerudová and the scandal involving the quick titles of the former rector of Charles University, Tomáš Zima, who is also seeking the presidency. According to him, Neruda’s claim that she herself did not know about what was happening at her university and even at her faculty during her term as rector is completely impossible.
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Winter in an interview with Týdeník Hrot he said that the fact that only three presidential candidates are being discussed in their media and the rest of the contenders are far behind is due to the media’s “selection” and also the financial resources that the candidates put into it. “I think that some of the top three have already, in the middle of the campaign, put more money into advertising than is allowed by the applicable law, specifically the legal limit,” he says.
For Neruda, he sees the reason for the growth of her preferences in the “huge media campaign” or in the fact that she is the only woman in the presidential election, “which is currently very popular regardless of what qualities the woman achieves.” The former rector of the most famous Czech university suggested that people should rather look at the results of the candidates. “They should not be influenced by how the media and certain groups support specific candidates and who to finance with tens of millions of crowns,” he pointed out.
Regarding the scandal with the distribution of accelerated degrees at the Mendel University in Brno during the time Nerudová led it, the former rector of Charles University points out that the price of doctoral studies in Brno itself is strange – namely, at the much more prestigious Charles University, there is a fee for doctoral studies at most faculties zero, because according to Zima, it is in her interest “to have quality and talented foreign students of doctoral programs here”, in Brno, as the presidential candidate pointed out, according to the media, it should have been about 25 thousand euros. “It gives me the impression of trading with titles,” assesses Zima.
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According to Zima, Neruda’s claim that she herself did not know about what was happening at her university and even at her faculty is completely out of line. “Ms. Nerudova likened herself to a gamekeeper who caught a poacher. No way. She’s a gamekeeper who shot himself in the leg and now he can bleed out. The rector is responsible for everything. That’s just a fact, and no amount of learned phrases will change that. In this case, it applies separately. Her university may lose institutional accreditation and international reputation. A body called the Internal Evaluation Board is established by law at the school. This council approves study programs and supervises their quality. This council is once again headed by law by the rector, in this case a female rector. So it is impossible for the person in question not to know about those problems. It is impossible for her to be in the dark and then be surprised when someone from the outside points out the problems. In addition, this was about the problems of the faculty, which she has been working on for a long time, and she was even vice-dean of it in the past,” summarized the former two-time rector of Charles University between 2014 and 2022.
He also does not understand that nothing happened at the Mendel University in Brno even after Nerudová was informed of the incident. “Here, the ice only moved after a year and a quarter, when it became known at the university. Did you write about it in Hrot sometime in April? Well, the dean only resigned in December. And the rector at the time says she has a clear conscience? This is unbelievable,” summed up Tomáš Zima.
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