“Daycares are crucial”
According to estimates, only one out of three Roma children attend preschool education for at least one year. This negative trend then shows in their ability to keep up with the kids from the majority. ...
4. 9. 2019 | 15:16
Články / Society
How foreigners helped with the national revolt
On 29 August, 1944, the Slovak National Uprising broke out. It was an armed insurrection and a strong demonstration of the fact that Slovaks refuse fascist rule of the wartime Slovak state and Germany. ...
29. 8. 2019 | 05:00
Occupation through the eyes of occupants
On the night of August 20-21, 1968, five Warsaw Pact countries (the Soviet Union, Poland, Bulgaria, East Germany and Hungary) launched a joint invasion of Czechoslovakia.
21. 8. 2019 | 15:34
Nitra’s center gets a facelift
Visitors to the Svätopluk Square in the center of Nitra will soon see some changes. New architectural features designed by participants in a three-day hackathon will gradually be implemented starting this ...
14. 8. 2019 | 09:47
Beekeeping the old-fashioned way
Marek Dedinský from Devinska Nova Ves is a beekeeper and a member of a local family who have a long tradition of beekeeping, now in their third generation, and have been producing honey for 120 years. ...
6. 8. 2019 | 15:59
The marriage of creativity and academic education
Most of us have been educated by a system whose methodology keeps typical "right-brain" and "left-brain" activities - e.g. the creative arts vs academic subjects - strictly separate. But there is a growing ...
30. 7. 2019 | 15:43
Love is all around us…
…according to the participants at two marches which took place in Bratislava on Saturday afternoon. Only its definition slightly differs as Anca Dragu has found out.
22. 7. 2019 | 14:34
For many, it’s the first US experience
With the summer vacation season officially kicking off, many young Slovaks decide to spend their summers actually working. To make the idea of working whole summer less appalling, they engage in programs ...
18. 7. 2019 | 11:37
“Czechs and Slovaks expect to become rich here”
A regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement and several English media, as well as to various publications in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Resident of London for around 50 years, book lover. ...
18. 7. 2019 | 11:35
How Slovak institutions impact the lives of minorities
I talk with Jakub Csabay, a Slovak PhD student at Cambridge University, about his research on the impact that public institutions have on the lives of minorities, including in Slovakia, and his plans for ...
25. 6. 2019 | 15:35
