Bc. Erika Smereková Strategy of Slovak Republic's Government to use higher education as an investment in human capital Abstract The Master thesis on the topic "Strategy of Slovak Republic's government to use higher education as an investment in human capital" presents results to the following research question: To what extent is it a part of strategy of Slovak Republic's educational policy to use higher education as an investment in human capital? The thesis specifically focuses on the idea of human capital contributing to growth of economy and society, however it does not oppose and refuse other importance and value of human capital. The thesis presents theoretical background of the concepts of human capital, higher education and the higher education as an investment in human capital. In the analytical part, there is research of Governmental strategic documents concerning higher education presented; international discourse and other related studies considered; and results of empirical research based on interviews with experts on higher education in the Slovak Republic presented. The results of analysis are, for example, that based on legislative regulation, long-term strategy of government serves only as a guideline for individual universities/colleges, which are obliged to prepare their own long-term...

The graduation thesis discuses the development of the foreign trade of Slovak republic in years 1993 - 2009. It takes a closer look on foreign trade in time of the crisis 2007-2009 and describes the impacts of the recesion. It also proposes some measures that can protect foreign trade of small opened economy of Slovakia agains next recesions. Thesis is devided into four chapters, which deal beside mentioned above also with the importance of foreign trade for Slovakia and with the process of the crisis.

Diploma thesis studies macroeconomical and fiscal progress of the Slovac Republic from the year 1993 with the strong focus on reformative arrangements in the area of public finance in the time period 2003 and 2004. The content targets evaluation of the causes of the refomative packet and his significance for the following progress of the slovac economy and fiscal area. The first part of the thesis evaluates economic policy till the year 2002, which passes over against background of the transformation process of the national economy, together with the identification of the status which led to the preparation and confirmation of the reformative legislation. Next part of the work studies the content of the accepted arrangaments itself and changes, which were brought to the Slovac Republic. The third part of the thesis follows the analytical evaluation of the real changes from the macroeconomical and fiscal part of view. Final part extends the knowledge with the international format through the comparation of the similar reform projects in Hungary, Estonia and Latvia and at the same time evaluates the stage and potential risks of the current economical and fiscal progression of the Slovac Republic

In this diploma work I analyse the lease from all of its economic and legal contexts. Here is the historical analysis of the lease, its advantages and disadvantages, and different types of leases. I compare in detail the reporting of financial leasing in the Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, and according to international accounting standards. The main difference is in the property of acquired subject of financial leasing, which was then withdrawn and subsequent billing. You will learn that the owner of the subject of financial leasing in accordance with Czech accounting standards is for the entire duration the landlord and the tenant has caught him just off the balance sheet. According to Slovak and international accounting standards the subject of lease is on the lessee's balance sheet, although not the legal owner of the asset. An important part of this work is also subhead concerning the legal nature of the lease - for example, the theoretical laws related to such leases or financial lease under changes in the various amendments. The last chapter includes a practical part. The first part is devoted to finance lease in the Czech accounting and the second part is about the financial reporting of leases in accordance with international accounting standards. In conclusion, we compare the balance sheet and profit and loss for each year according to Czech accounting standards and IFRS.

The diploma thesis deals with a creation of three significant Slovak representatives who are Dominik Tatarka, Ľubomír Feldek and Milan Lasica and their view of the Czech nation and its culture. Their craft indeed exceeds boundaries of the Slovak republic and its well-known also to many people in the Czechia. The paper is aimed to deepen knowledge of the Slovak art especially literature at the Czech environment and to find out how the three chosen artists see it. Three separate chapters are devoted to the lives of Dominik Tatarka, Ľubomír Feldek and Milan Lasica and circumstances of their creation which always individually zoom in also periods when the Czech environment influenced or shaped them mostly, apart from other significant information. The chapters together create a basis of a an analysis of the literary works which are specifically focused on the Czech environment or which create a knowledge about it. Thanks to this analysis we tried to map out which image is constructed by author's literary works about the Czechia and to point out to Czech-Slovak relationships also a quarter century after separation of the two neighboring nations. We looked closer to their current connection at the last part of the paper which is especially dedicated to the literary creation and translation to the Czech...

The goal of this diploma thesis is to assess the suitability and readiness of the Slovak Republic to adopt a single European currency. In analyzing the costs and benefits relating to Slovakia?s accession to the EMU, this thesis is guided by the theory of the OCA. The thesis provides a survey of the OCA theory, attempts to measure some of the OCA indicators and calculate OCA index for Slovakia. The results suggest that Slovakia fulfils the necessary condition for joining the monetary union, i.e. it is relatively well aligned with the euro area. The diploma thesis concludes that Slovakia is relatively suitable and well-prepared to join the euro area in 2009.

abstract: Codeswitching, or the bilingual practice of switching between two languages, is a frequently misunderstood phenomenon in many fields, including education. Given the growing number of bilingual students and English Language Learners in U.S. schools, it is imperative that the field of education be informed by current research in bilingualism and language acquisition, including codeswitching. Codeswitching that occurs within a sentence is subject to specific rules derived from the languages involved in the switching. Furthermore, a codeswitcher's intuitions about the grammatical acceptability of certain switches over others, called grammaticality judgments, provide linguists with a unique window into how the language systems interact. In current codeswitching research, it is sometimes claimed that simultaneous and early sequential bilinguals provide more accurate grammaticality judgments than late sequential bilinguals. Although this claim is largely motivated by Critical Period Hypothesis research, the grammaticality judgments of the three groups of bilinguals have yet to be systematically compared to determine if there is indeed a difference in judgments. This dissertation investigates potential differences in intrasentential codeswitching patterns of simultaneous, early sequential and late sequential Slovak-English bilinguals (N = 39) through a comparison of grammaticality judgments. Analysis of potential differences is grounded in generative approaches to first and second language acquisition. Grammaticality judgments from Slovak-English bilinguals were elicited through a survey of constructed items. Chi square results are analyzed to determine variation in judgments attributable to bilingual group based on age of onset of exposure to English. In addition, a sub-study of data from the Welsh-English Siarad Corpus (http://www.siarad.org.uk/siarad.php) is presented. Normed token means for English and mixed tokens for simultaneous, early sequential, and late sequential bilinguals are compared using ANOVA tests, and variability is discussed in light of relevant theoretical considerations. Results from this study indicate that there are few differences attributable to age of onset of exposure, thus helping to clarify current practices in codeswitching research methodology, particularly in terms of identifying characteristics of participants. The study also addresses issues surrounding the critical period hypothesis and the effect of age of onset of exposure in bilingualism, topics which are both directly relevant to the field of education. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Curriculum and Instruction 2010

The main aim of this thesis is to analyse the local and regional government system in the Czech and Slovak Republic and to hand over a clear outline of major differences within a mixed and separate model of public administration practice. The script is divided into five chapters which are further compartmentalised. The first chapter is dedicated to general questions, terms and principles related to topic of the thesis, especially defining local and regional model of public administration and its main features. Beside the strengths, this part also points out some partial problems related with applying both models of public administration. The second chapter is bringing in a brief excurse into relation of state administration and self-government from the beginning, since year 1848, till the Velvet Revolution in year 1989, pointing out the evolution of public administration models. Emphasized is the evolution of local and regional public administration after the year 1989, being analysed by author within the chapters three to five, presenting a core of whole thesis. The third chapter is dealing for most with the reconstruction of local territorial self- government and description of social-historic circumstances under which the new legal regulations emerged. Thesis did not neglected the local state...

The diploma thesis „Proposals for company improvement on the Slovak market“ is focused on company ABC, producing special feed intended for animals. Theoretical part deals with the importace of international trade, posibility for businesses how to enter into foreign markets as well as theory analysis of internal and external business environment. Second part of the thesis analyses these environment from the practical point of view. Third part consists of suggestions how to improve ABC company´s business model on the Slovak market.

RULCOVÁ, Simona. The integration of the Slovak ethnic minority in Czech society. Praha: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2016. 113 pp. Master Degree Thesis. The Slovak minority is considered to be the most integrated minority in the Czech Republic. The work offers an analysis of the cultural diversity, focusing on the Slovak minority and the transformation of its identity. It summarizes examples of the social integration of Slovaks in the Czech Republic and assesses its role in a real life. The Slovak question in the Czech environment is also presented in a historical perspective, but the main emphasis is put on the analysis of current situation. The work is complemented by own filed research that it maps the real situatiton of transformations of identity and the social integration of the representatives of the Slovak minority, including the functionality of the institution which deals with the integration of the Slovak minority. Keywords: identity, Slovak ethnic minority, integration, Czech Republic, migration.