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March 27, 2012
The One World Experience

After shaking up Prague for ten days, from 6 to 15 March, the One World Documentary Film Festival and before moving on to towns including Brno, Liberec, Plzen and 36 other places, AAU students talk about their experience as visitors.

After shaking up Prague for ten days, from 6 to 15 March, the One World Documentary Film Festival whose major theme is “youth quake” moves further in the Czech Republic, to towns including Brno, Liberec, Plzen and 36 other places. The festival will continue with its mission – to build awareness, educate, initiate public debates and promote social inclusion.

November 6, 2011
Student Part-Time Jobs vs. Future Employment

Seniors face a different situation because they have to think about serious future employment. 

For many bachelor's students in the Czech Republic, the only opportunity to earn extra money is to find a good “brigade.” The classic brigade is a part-time job for a certain period of time that does not require special skills and training, for instance, work in supermarkets, warehouses, delivering letters and leaflets. 

October 6, 2011
"We’re all AAU family"

Lucien Holmes lays out big plans for AAU's new Alumni and Career Center: An AAU family network, mentoring programs, managers hosting seminars, a job fair in Spring and a job database.

What is the purpose of the new Alumni Relations and Career Center?

May 3, 2011
AAU delegates show firm resolution at Harvard Model UN

“We did quite well,” says Sandilya. “I wouldn’t say we were super successful but we did quite well.”

Anglo-American University was the only Czech University to send a delegation to the 57th Harvard Model United Nations Conference in Boston in February.

The group was larger and more successful than the one last year, with AAU students spending two weeks in the United States. Model UN conference aside, four of them met the Andorran ambassador at the United Nations headquarters in New York City.

April 22, 2011
Tuition discount confusion lingers

“We found out by accident,” said Julie Kolmanová and Kamila Hrebicková, also third year Humanities students at AAU. Kolmanová told ALW that she and her friends were told about the tuition discount through a friend who says that he read the information on a poster he saw around school.

There are continuing students from the 2009/2010 scholastic year that still don’t know about the 10 percent discount in tuition available to them for the current 2011 Spring semester. However, that does not mean it doesn’t exist. All you have to do is ask the Finance Office for your discount and they will gladly give it to you.

March 16, 2011
The Prague Post Discussion Series: Is the Czech Republic entrepeneur-friendly?

Featured guests:

Andreas Antonopoulous, rector, UNYP

Jo Weaver, chairwoman, International Business Forum

Luca Salvino, partner, Savino & Partners Business Consultants

Karel Havlicek, chairman, Assoc. of small & medium-sized enterprises and crafts of the Czech Republic

Moderated by Claire Compton, Prague Post Business Editor

After the discussion stay around to chat, have a drink on the National Gallery’s rooftop terrace or visit an exhibition

February 27, 2011
Meet professor Robert Ellmann

When he was "just a kid" he would take baths with "two nice black twin sisters from next door." He says that it was nothing since they were all so young but that there was "racial harmony in the bathtub."

A man some students meet at least once a week is not just a teacher but a well-travelled person of many experiences and occupations.

Robert Ellmann teaches wide range of subjects in which he shares with the pupils his wealth of knowledge and outlook on philosophy. Sitting in the cafeteria, looking through papers for his next lecture, Ellmann started to answer questions at first a little nervously, not knowing what was coming, but quickly he became relaxed and forthcoming.

February 6, 2011
Donald Fuller: A life in learning, teaching and travel

"I was a Depression baby," says Fuller.

April 3, 2006

February 6, 2011
Gimme shelter: the race for housing

"There just wasn't anyone who could help," said McDonough. After searching through the AAC website, she said, she did find that the school provides assistance, but her inquiry email was unreturned.

November 15, 2006

February 6, 2011
Rent disagreement with Knights could force AAU to move, Krautstengl say

The rent dispute has prompted AAU to halt any further construction at the Lazenska buildings, including finishing a long-promised student lounge, Krautstengl said.

October 22, 2010

February 6, 2011
Student Council leader brings sense of realism to job

Anglo-American University's new student council president, Mario Nicolaou, approaches his job with more realism than idealism.
"It's not about saying, it's about doing," said Nicolaou, "What I say happens; that's how I am."
The purpose of student council is to promote student activities and build cohesiveness among the student body. But AAU has only about 450 students and some students take only one or two classes. Many lack the time for or interest in building a community.
In addition, the council's budget is limited to just CZK 60,000 a year.

December 1, 2008

February 5, 2011
AAU recycling efforts fall flat

Tureckova said administrators were busy with timetables and class organization and didn't always have time to think about the environment.

October 22, 2010

Look inside any wastebasket around the AAU campus and you'll see pretty much the same thing: plastic bottles, cardboard cups and paper.

February 5, 2011
Czechs lead Europe in marijuana smoking

Less than four years after their entrance into the European Union, Czechs have become some of the continent's best cannabis consumers. It's an image that the country is not especially proud of.
"Everybody must get stoned," sang Bob Dylan, The Doors, the Wailers... and the list of bands endorsing marijuana goes on and on. Their message is clear: Weed is a soft drug so let's roll, folks!

February 8, 2008

Less than four years after their entrance into the European Union, Czechs have become some of the continent's best cannabis consumers. It's an image that the country is not especially proud of.
"Everybody must get stoned," sang Bob Dylan, The Doors, the Wailers... and the list of bands endorsing marijuana goes on and on. Their message is clear: Weed is a soft drug so let's roll, folks!

February 5, 2011
Day of Neo-Nazi rally becomes Day of City-Wide "Anti-Fa" Celebrations

By around 3:30pm the Skinheads started gathering at the Charles University Law Faculty. In all there were twenty, the rest were Anti-Fascist demonstrators. More and more Anti-fascists started gathering, and then the police started showing up. The police came with armored trucks with crowd control panels welded to the front. The crowds were growing thicker, and then suddenly everyone rushed to the side of the faculty building. A man had taken a trashcan and started to bash a student's face with one of the narrow metal trashcans outside the building. After the attack the student disappeared as well as the attacker. A square foot sized puddle of blood was on the ground. About three feet away was the dented trashcan. On the wall, between the blood and trash can hung a plaque dedicated to victims of the Nazi occupation that were thrown over the nearby bridge May 5, 1945 as a result of the Prague Uprising only four days before the regime fell.

September 1, 2008

February 5, 2011
Student jobs don't grow on trees

The university has no written policy on hiring students nor does it mention student jobs in the catalog nor were any mentioned in student services emails sent during the last year.

October 22, 2010

February 5, 2011
Student's broken ankle highlights lack of training for AAU receptionists

In severe pain, she called out to the reception desk for help, but the answer she got came as a shock. The AAU receptionist said she was not able to call emergency services.

October 22, 2010

February 4, 2011
Anglo-American College Student Number One

"I can't thank the school enough" she emphasizes, "I wouldn't be where I am today" if it wasn't for the AAC. 

May 3, 2007

February 4, 2011
Combining work and travel pays off

As summertime nears, students plot their plans for months of freedom, the perfect chance for extended trips to explore new cultures. But preparing for life after college is also critical, and summer employment is a perfect way to do this. There are many opportunities to do both work and exploration, although few students take advantage of them, setting apart those who do.

April 30, 2009

February 4, 2011
The Blind Eye is Always Open

"We cater to people that are individuals. It's a special place, and we do our best to make everybody comfortable." 

May 3, 2007

February 4, 2011
Two new master's degrees add to business arsenal

"I am glad that area of master programs at Anglo American University broadens," she says. "I hope other major programs will offer new master programs too."

April 30, 2009

February 3, 2011
Classrooms: too cold, too hot, just right

"[It was] like Prague October weather, but inside," said Sbroscia.

After weeks in which classrooms were too hot and years in which they were too cold, the AAU staff appears finally to have gotten the classrooms temperatures about right.

As the weather became colder in October and November, the university turned the heat up, making some classrooms uncomfortably hot. Now, the temperatures have come down a few degrees, and the school appears to have found a happy medium.

"It was hotter before, but now it's better," said Emilia Sbroscia, a first-year International Relations student.

February 3, 2011
Daddy, can you pay for my future?

December 1, 2010

From the first grade kids in school are always told by their parents to study hard and get good grades; not so much to be smart but to set their first steps into their future.

January 13, 2011
AAU's student cafeteria generates gripes and praise

"We are students and the prices are like for tourists." The reaction of Magda Kocian, a fifth-semester student at AAU, was typical.
 

October 22, 2010

January 10, 2011
Students still waiting on ISIC cards

In November 2009, AAU students received an email signed by the Student Services Center announcing that AAU was going to "provide ISIC and ITIC cards for all the students and faculty, effective from Fall 2010" after the Student Council proposed the campaign to the AAU administration.

December 1,2010

January 10, 2011
University move now looking inevitable

Even if the Knights of Malta agree to lower the rent to what the university is asking for, Anglo-American University might still move from its main buildings at Lazenska 2 and 4 to new premises in Mala Strana, school president Alan Krautstengl said.

December 1, 2010