Translation of the Minutes of the Meeting of the
Academic Senate of Faculty of Informatics
held on 14th February 2018 14:30 in room B517 FI
Note: this translation is provided only for the convenience of our staff and students who do not
speak Czech. In case of doubt, the Czech version is the primary version. The quality of this
translation is not ideal due to my time constraints. In case of problems with this translation,
please contact me: ​​Vladimír Štill <xstill@fi.muni.cz>​. I will also be glad if you find this translation
helpful and inform me about that.
Present Members of the Senate
Jaroslav Bendík, Ivana Černá, Vlastislav Dohnal, Barbora Kozlíková, Michal Kozubek, Jakub
Peschel, Tomáš Pitner, Jan Strejček, Vladimír Štill
Excused from the Meeting
Barbora Bühnová, Dominika Krejčí, David Šafránek
Guests
Jiří Zlatuška, dean of FI;
Pavel Matula, vice-dean for bachelor and master studies;
Petr Hliněný, vice-dean for research, development and doctoral studies;
Jiří Barnat, vice-dean for curricula;
Topics
1. Amounts of study fees for the academic year 2018/2019
2. Miscellaneous
1. Amounts of study fees for the academic year 2018/2019
The fees concerned are the fee for application to a study programme, and the fee for study in a
foreign language (English). The fee for application is to be risen from 400 Kč to 600 Kč. The
university did a poll which suggests this will have no negative impact on the applicants. The
money collected from these fees are used for organization of the entrance exam, as well as for
the Students' Advisory Services and faculty propagation.
There was a short discussion followed by voting in which all present senators agreed with the
proposals.
Note: the fees for extended study periods are set by the university and therefore are not
discussed on the faculty senate.
2. Miscellaneous
Zlatuška, the dean of the faculty, brought information from the rector’s board about the increase
of doctoral scholarships. This increase follows the increase of indicators in the state budget
which sets financing given to universities for doctoral students. The university will likely decide
to increase the minimal doctoral scholarship to 12 000 Kč (from the current 7 000 Kč). This
increase should be similar to increases of doctoral scholarships which will be done by other big
universities in Czech Republic.
On the Facutly of Informatics there will be an additional increase in doctoral scholarships from
the semester Spring 2018 which is independent on this increase and payed form the faculty
budget. This increase concerns all students of the first year and for other students it will depend
on their publication record. This scholarship is now set to 50 % of the base for doctoral
scholarships on the university. The dean and the vice-dean for doctoral studies indicated that
this scholarship will probably continue, but will not be increased with the rise of the university
base scholarship (it will stay at 3 700 Kč). The dean also informed that there was a discussion
about the ways of paying of doctoral students. The current way of paying scholarships means
that the scholarships are not counted towards the social programmes such as maternity leave
and pension. The alternative would be to pay wages to the doctoral students, but this would
increase spending for the faculties. Nevertheless, Zlatuška said he suggested this, but did not
receive support on the rector’s board.
Next, there was a discussion about doctoral study programmes in the English language. The
university does not receive state funding for these students and these students have to pay
study fees. This goes counter to the attempts of having high quality doctoral students from
abroad.
The dean further mentioned that he sees no problems in the current version of the proposal of
the university budget.
On the next meeting the academic senate will be voting on the faculty budget and it should
happen the week after the Easters. The date was set to be Wednesday 4th April at 14:30. The
same meeting will also go through the proposals of new curricula.
Recorded and translated by Vladimír Štill
Version from the 28th February 2018