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School of Education

It’s often said that teaching is a calling. But it is also a path of continual growth and personal development, which demands hard work but is equally rewarding. The School of Education builds on the reputation and tradition established by its predecessor Akcent College, founded in 2008, by offering progressive learning, centred on teaching practice. The programmes are fully accredited by the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth & Sport and are led by skilled and dedicated educators in a supportive, international environment. 

As an English Teacher, you have a passion for language and communication, and the drive to help others to learn and have a voice in the world. You will leave PCU fully qualified to start a career teaching English at Czech state secondary schools and at language schools internationally.

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School of Education offers Czech accredited programme:

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Beyond the Classroom

You will learn how to create engaging content, as well as advanced presentation skills.
Take part in PCU organised Educational Conferences. Meet teachers from around Czech Republic and the world and receive the latest research and training methods to expand your teaching approach.

Our faculty are highly experienced, practical in nature and empathetic to student needs.

Small class sizes and close mentoring from lecturers allow you to develop new skills and thrive professionally.

Meet the Rektor and Dean of the School of Education

Zdeněk Starý

Zdeněk Starý

Zdenek Starý is Rektor of Czech University Accreditation and Programmes, and Dean of the School of Education. He also pursues his own professional and educational interests in general linguistics. Zdeněk teaches general linguistics, focusing on language structure and issues of cognitive linguistics (undergraduate and graduate level); and tutors PhD linguistics students. Zdeněk holds a CSc. degree in General Linguistics (Charles University) and MA degrees in Czech Studies, Aesthetics and Mathematics (Charles University).

Latest News from the School of Education

Erasmus+ Student and Teacher Mobility

PCU participates in the Erasmus University Charter (ECHE), and has previously sent Bc. Specialized Education students for a semester of studies at the University of Latvia and language teaching internships in Barcelona, Spain and Manchester, United Kingdom.

Furthermore, lecturers have conducted teaching exchanges to universities in Turkey, Lithuania, Latvia, Slovakia and Poland.

Faculty Profiles

Květa Suchánková

Květa Suchánková, PhD

Květa has been teaching our programmes on pedagogy, didactics and adult education since 2008. She has also chaired the Department of Pedagogy and Psychology from 2014. Květa’s areas of expertise are general didactics, general pedagogy, and adult education. She studied at Masaryk University in Brno (Mgr. degree in Czech language, social sciences) and subsequently at Charles University in Prague (PhD in Pedagogy). Květa specializes in development of didactic competencies of lecturers to adults and teachers of pre-school and school education. She has more than 20 years of experience in private and public educational institutions as a teacher, lecturer, consultant and as a school principal.

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Gregor Kalinowski, PhD

Gregor teaches literature, theory and academic writing on the English as a Second Language programme. He holds Master’s degrees in Modern Literature and European Philosophy and a PhD in English from the University of Kent in Canterbury. His main research interest is modernist and late modernist literature, focusing especially on Kafka. He has published on Kafka in peer-reviewed journals such as The German QuarterlySubStance and Comparative Literature. Gregor also has a background in language-teaching and teacher-training and has been a CELTA tutor for over ten years.

Alumni Profiles

Michaela Furiaková

Michaela Furiaková

I can highly recommend PCU. I specialised in pedagogy and English as a foreign language in combined study. I passed my state exams and was completely prepared for teaching. After obtaining my Bachelor’s degree I pursued my Master’s at UJEP. While studying I started teaching at a grammar school in my home town where I still teach. The School of Education uses new, modern and truly motivating methods. The semesters of didactics were very time consuming, but I used all the materials in class and these methods were extremely useful to me in my follow-up studies at UJEP. I can say with a clear conscience that the School of Education has advanced my teaching skills the most during my career. It was a challenging programme, but incredibly practical and I still remember the content that I studied.

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Veronika Nebeská

I spent time in the UK and USA as an au-pair and when I returned to the Czech Republic I began teaching English at a private language school which I didn’t feel properly qualified for. I chose to study English as a foreign language at PCU which hugely advanced my skills and professional career. I was really "forced" to work on my knowledge of English, and on the other subjects connected to language teaching. It wasn’t easy but it definitely improved my abilities not only with speaking and writing but especially in language teaching, which was something that I’ve always dreamed of. Classes take place in a real language school under the guidance of experts and are run in smaller groups which allowed for "closer" contact between the lecturers and students. Now I work as an English teacher at local primary school.

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