President Klaus names 68 new professors

President Vaclav Klaus on Friday named 68 new professors in a special ceremony at Prague’s Charles University. On the occasion Education Minister Miroslava Kopicová pointed out that Czech universities were undergoing a confidence crisis triggered by the plagiarism and fast-track-degrees scandal at Plzen’s law faculty. She said that certain disciplines had been damaged by a brain drain to the private sector with school graduates unwilling to commit to academic careers which paid less than they would make elsewhere.