If you have obtained a previous education before your studies in secondary school and you have proof of it, it is possible for the headmaster of secondary school to recognise this education and you do not have to re-study the subject or the entire year of study. From the point of view of the content of previous education, a distinction is made as to whether the education is comprehensive or partial.
In particular, a successful completion of education at a secondary school, conservatory, higher vocational school in the Czech Republic or abroad, attested by a document proving its successful completion, or by any other demonstrable means (final certificate, final examination certificate, school-leaving examination certificate, etc.), is considered to be a comprehensive educational attainment. We can also include an individual graduation exam or final exam.
Partial education is considered, for example, the completion of only some years of another secondary school, conservatory, higher vocational school in the Czech Republic or abroad or other education, especially in vocational courses or language school.
If, in your application to the headmaster of a secondary school for recognition of a comprehensive education by a credible document (final examination certificate, school-leaving examination certificate, etc.), you prove that you have obtained that education, the headmaster of the school will recognise such education because there is a legal right to recognition of a comprehensive education. In practice, this means that the headmaster of the secondary school always releases the pupil from teaching and evaluating those subjects (or their parts), the content and scope of which is identical to the completed and at the same time studied field of education. However, that release applies only to the education itself, that is to say, to attendance at school and assessment at school-leaving certificates, and does not concern the final or graduation examination. As the above-mentioned evidence of education is of lasting validity, there is also no period of validity for entitlement to recognition of completed education.
In the case of partial education, it is left to the discretion of the headmaster of the secondary school whether and to what extent this partial education (based on an assessment of its content and extent) will be recognized by you in the context of your education in the given secondary school or not.
There is no legal entitlement to recognition of partial educational attainment. Its sufficiency for recognition shall be assessed by the headmaster of the school, on the basis of proof of such education, unless more than 10 years have elapsed since attainment or on the basis of an examination prescribed by the headmaster. The Director may recognise the educational attainment of only some subjects or only some years completed in another secondary school (even abroad), or in another field of secondary education, in a conservatory, higher vocational school, or other education, for example, in vocational courses or in a language school.
At any time during high school education.
The service is solved in the high school of the pupil.
You can solve the service by submitting an electronic application through the data box to the headmaster of the school.
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You are working in the high school you are attending.
You can apply by post or in person at the school.
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The benefit is the recognition of previous education already completed.
The appeal against the rejection of an application for recognition of educational attainment is decided by the regional authority or the City of Prague competent according to the seat of the secondary school.
The appeal is filed through the headmaster of the school.
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The application form is not provided for. It is sufficient to use the usual method of filing, which indicates who is filing it, what the case relates to and what is being proposed, including the identification of who is filing it and, where applicable, the address for service. Alternatively, you can use the form published by the school itself on its website. Don't forget to include certified copies of your educational documents.
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