Ekonomická a finančná matematika

Správa od prof. Frenscha doc Fidrmucovi:

Von: Richard Frensch [mailto:frensch@ios-regensburg.de]
Gesendet: Dienstag, 4. März 2014 14:05
An: roman Horvath; Fidrmuc,Jarko
Betreff: re

Dear Roman and Jarko,

as you perhaps know, I spent last week in Bratislava and in Prague, interviewing Slovak and Czech students who had applied for two-year DAAD scholarships in order to study business or economics on Master level at a German university. The Czech info flyers on these scholarships are attached (I do not have the Slovak ones, applications in Slovakia are organized by SAIA, http://www.saia.sk).

This was, I think, the fourth time I have done that so far, and I see little change in terms of the quality of the applicants. While I cannot really detect a clear "pattern" in terms of Slovak applications, Czech applications to me seem dominated by students at the Faculty of International Relations of VSE who want to go for an MBA in Germany but are not overwhelmingly qualified, to put it mildly.

I simply assume that there is a sufficient number of well qualified potential Slovak and Czech applicants in bus admin and economics, but for whichever reason I never see them. E.g., in four years, I think I have never seen a single IES/Charles University student applying for a DAAD scholarship.

Do you happen to know why this is so? Is the German language a barrier for better qualified students? Or do the Czech DAAD application materials make it only into VSE? Or is there any other reason?

Please, do let me know what you think about this!

Very best,


Richard