Education minister wants to abolish entrance exams to grammar schools

The new Czech education minister Dana Kuchtova has stated her intention to abolish entrance exams to grammar schools. According to statistics only around twenty percent of all students at Czech secondary schools are grammar school students, the rest are at vocational or technical colleges. This is in sharp contrast to countries such as Poland or Sweden where around half of all students attend grammar school. Minister Kuchtova said she wanted to facilitate students' entry to grammar schools by establishing new admission criteria such as their average grades and performance in primary school.