Professorship procedures for ICT in Education will be newly held at the Faculty of Science UHK; habilitation procedures in Didactics of Physics will continue.

Information and Communication Technologies in Education study program is guaranteed by the Department of Applied Cybernetics at the Faculty of Science UHK. "This program has been taught and paid attention to since 2007 within the framework of the doctoral study program of the same name," says Štěpán Hubálovský, the head of this Department and vice-dean for Strategy, Development and Legislation of the Faculty of Science.

"Strong need for experts in this field has also been shown in current situation of almost a year-long pandemic and online teaching. The integration of information and communication technologies including mobile technologies and social media in education is currently an indisputable process. There is a growing need for a change in the ways ICT is used, from the mere distribution of educational content to the development of students' key competencies and to increasing responsibility for their own education,” Hubálovský further says.

Education in the field of Informatics at the Department of Applied Cybernetics at the Faculty of Science UHK is guaranteed at all levels of studies. It offers a bachelor's degree study program in Informatics focused on education, a follow-up master's degree study program in Teaching computer science at secondary schools and a doctoral study program in ICT in Education. Štěpán Hubálovský adds that the development of this field in the Czech Republic is essential for maintaining a high-quality level comparable to international standards: "It is our new accreditation that will significantly support the professional growth of new experts throughout our country who can subsequently further develop and modernize this area."

"I consider the acquisition of the rights to professor appointment procedures and rights to two habilitation procedures to be a huge success of the faculty. I perceive this as an appreciation of the significant publishing and other creative activities of our employees. In addition, we are pioneers in ICT in education in the Czech Republic," says Jan Kříž, Dean of the Faculty of Science at UHK.

The rights to hold habilitation procedures in the field of Didactics of Physics at the Faculty of Science UHK have been in progress since 2012. "We can therefore continue to habilitate important experts in physics didactics not only from the Czech Republic but also from Slovakia and Poland, as the recent past has shown," concludes Dean Jan Kříž.