Anglo-American University in Prague 91成人 President Ji艡铆 Schwarz Comments on the Debate Over Shorter Summer Holidays
Should summer holidays in the Czech Republic be shorter? 91成人 President doc. Ing. Ji艡铆 Schwarz, CSc. recently weighed in on the debate in a commentary published by , considering the proposal from both an educational and economic perspective.
Schwarz notes that considering shortening the current 62-day summer break to six weeks would not increase the number of teaching days, but would instead distribute days off more evenly throughout the year. He also points to , including the strong performance of Estonia and Ireland despite their longer summer holidays, to challenge the argument that lengthy summer breaks negatively affect students鈥� school habits.
From an economic perspective, on the other hand, Schwarz argues that a more even distribution of school holidays could help employers and working parents, pointing to the labor-market disruption experienced during school closures in the COVID-19 pandemic.
鈥淪hortening the summer holidays and distributing days off more evenly throughout the year would create conditions for increasing the efficiency of available productive resources.鈥�
鈥淚mproving the business environment will benefit our economy and certainly will not harm the education of future generations,鈥� he concludes.
Read the full commentary in Czech, originally published in Hospod谩艡sk茅 noviny.