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Marie Demlova
Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
During the last decades teachers at universities of technology often complain that the level of knowledge and skills that new students have when entering HE institution decreased considerably. Moreover, even though the percentage of students entering HE institutions has increased (in the Czech Republic to nearly three quarters) the number of students entering HE institutions in STEM remains the same or is smaller than 10 years ago. As a consequence, the success rate is decreasing for freshmen to successfully finish first year of study. On the other hand, the need of employees for STEM jobs is steadily increasing.
The contribution brings experience gained at CTU to overcome the problem of decreasing success rate of freshmen.