Commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the University of Hradec Králové
The good wishes of the UHK faculty deans for the 60th anniversary of the University of Hradec Králové
doc. PhDr. MgA. František Vaníček, Ph.D.
DEAN OF THE FACULTY OF EDUCATION, UHK
Cordial greetings from the Dean’s Office of the Faculty of Education of the University of Hradec Králové at Svoboda Square, where the Institute of Education was established 60 years ago. Its mission was to train future teachers. Five years after being founded, the Institute of Education was transformed into the Faculty of Education in accordance with the law. And since then, the Faculty of Education has run strong. If today we are commemorating the 60th anniversary of the legal predecessor of the entire university, we are also commemorating the still most important mission of this higher education institution – 60 years of academic teacher training. And so, it is also our Faculty’s anniversary. We celebrated it in March 2019 as part of the Social Evening hosted by the Faculty of Education. We take great pride in joining the celebrations.
We are happy to say that the interior of the historical building of the Institute of Education in which the Dean’s Office is now located will soon undergo the necessary repairs and that it will once again shine bright!
I wish the University of Hradec Králové and our Faculty of Education many successful years to come, plenty of applicants, talented students and qualified graduates and a plenitude of happy and motivated educators.
Long live the First Faculty Lady – the Faculty of Education and the University of Hradec Králové!
prof. RNDr. Josef Hynek, MBA, Ph.D.
DEAN OF THE FACULTY OF INFORMATICS AND MANAGEMENT, UHK
Sixty years have passed since the Institute of Education was founded in Hradec Králové and our school, our students and our employees have lived half of that time in freedom. I wish the number of years our alma mater and all of us live in freedom increase every year by the number one and may these years be filled with happiness and success.
Mgr. Jan Prouza, Ph.D.
DEAN OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL FACULTY, UHK
Our University has gone through much over the past sixty years – Stalinism slowly coming to an end, the beginning of the Prague Spring and its abrupt and violent end under the Warsaw Pact invasion, followed by the Biafra of Spirit in the form of the period of normalisation instigated by Gustáv Husák and then the Velvet Revolution, followed by 30 years of freedom of development, which we have the honour to celebrate this year.
And so, keeping the next at least 60 years in mind, I wish the University (and all of society) that it be the University which through its graduates, students and academic as well as non-academic staff contributes to us not squandering the sacrifices and efforts made by our predecessors and that it continues in its dynamic development.
doc. RNDr. Jan Kříž, Ph.D.
DEAN OF THE FACULTY OF SCIENCE, UHK
What can I wish our University over the next 60 years? May it remain student-friendly. What kind of university would it be without (happy) students? The fact that students are part of an environment that is familiar to them is what I regard as being our family silver. Let us maintain a kind face, let us make study programmes a bit more interesting and attractive and success will be ours to have and to hold. And to add to that in the first years of the second 60-year period a fantastic scientific breakthrough in the form of a prestigious international grant, best be an interdepartmental one and an interfaculty one for four strong players. And then best wishes to everyone associated with the UHK; the rest will fall into place on its own.
