Education Minister calls for more emphasis on modern history

Minister of Education Miroslava Kopicová has called for schools to give greater priority to teaching modern history. She says lessons tackling the history of totalitarian regimes would make pupils more sensitive to attacks on democracy and human rights and help counter extremism. The recommendations are directed at primary and secondary schools. The call for more attention and more imaginative teaching of recent history in Czech schools has been made in the past by some history teachers themselves as well as leading Czech historians.