

First, more prestigious universities typically have quite broad scholarship programs, broader than the less well-known ones. How can a Czech student finance studies at such a prestigious English University? Having every 2 weeks private 90 minutes session with a world-known professor to discuss your essays, your curriculum as well as personal topics is something that Czech universities unfortunately cannot match with. What was the biggest surprise here, was there something that you had not expect with your experience with the Czech University?Ģcm gaps in window frames during winter don’t count, right? Seriously, besides the usual English quirks such as grass fascination, weather conversations and no house insulation, I was amazed by the level of personal investment the Oxford professors put into you.
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In his free time, Václav likes doing sports - he especially enjoys mountain hiking.Īfter the graduation at the IES you went to Oxford. Since 2014 Vaclav has been working at McKinsey, where he focuses on projects in energy, sustainability as well as on development projects across Africa.Īs a volunteer he founded and organized several years of the One World festival branch in Benešov and now participates in organization of the summer academy Discover, where he teaches the course Development studies. He spent a year doing research on inclusion of young unemployed graduates to the labor market in Ethiopia and impact of trade liberalization on industrial firms in Ghana. Later he became a Research Assistant at the Center for Study of African Economies at the University of Oxford. He worked while studying at the IES, for example as an intern at NGO People in need where he provided assistance to Asian development projects. He graduated from the University of Oxford, where he earned master's degree in Development Economics.

Václav Těhle comes from a small village near Benešov and he finished his studies at the IES in 2012.
