Programy psané do šuplíku? Promýšlení reformy československých vysokých škol za druhé světové války
Programmes Written to be Shelved? Thinking About a Reform of Czechoslovak Universities During the Second World War

Summary/Abstract: During the Second World War, a number of programme documents which included or were exclusively focused on proposals regarding a reform of the Czechoslovak system of higher education were written both in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and in exile. This contribution treats the most relevant of them: describing each in turn and then comparing them. In particular, the author analyses the programmes produced by the London government, programme points of the Social Democratic Party in exile, programme of the home resistance group Za svobodu (For Freedom), outlines of reform proposals elaborated by students both in the Protectorate and in exile, and last but not least proposals authored by Professors Miloslav Valouch and Zdeněk Nejedlý. The aim of this contribution is to demonstrate that even during the WWII, ideas and notions which were discussed later, in 1945–1948, were gradually taking shape, and some elements of these proposals even found their way into a later Communist reform of higher education.

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