Education Ministry needs to resolve capacity problems in Czech schools

The Czech Education Ministry is scrambling to resolve a pending capacity crisis at Czech schools and kindergartens following the admission of some 3,000 refugees from Ukraine. If all refugee children due to start kindergarten wanted to enroll as of September 1, Prague would lack 2,300 places in its pre-school institutions, the ministry said. On the other hand there would be vacancies in Ostrava and Třinec, which have the largest capacities. According to a study by PAQ Research, there are 2,818 vacancies in kindergartens across the Czech Republic, but the capacities are very unevenly spread out.  In primary schools, there would be an overhang of 61,000 places nationwide from September, but in Prague there would be a shortage of around 3,000 places, the study said.