Abstract
A programme called 'The Alternative Sector of Higher Education', designed to transform the Czech higher education system and bring it closer to the standards in West European countries, was launched in the Czech Republic in 1991. The main objective is to develop a vocational higher education sector and to diversify the educational aims, form and content of studies offered by higher education institutions. The programme should initiate the changes which many West European higher education systems underwent 20 years ago: the transformation from an elitist model to a mass model of higher education. The Czech programme is based on a well-tried method applied in other countries, with selected vocational secondary schools gradually being wholly or partly turned into institutions providing higher education focused on training for jobs. The decision to start the programme was made because of the future needs of the labour market, changes due to economic and social development, analyses of the present conditions and possible developments in the education system and, last but not least, the demand for higher education. This article will focus on the educational dimension and the labour market.
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