This study brings the results of an international study of the views of academic teachers (academics) and students from the Czech Republic, Poland, the Slovak Republic, and the Ukraine on the importance of the digital competence of academics. Digital competence is usually intertwined into a broader didactic competence that can be incorporated into the educational profile of an academic. Aggregated data in the first half of 2018 was compiled using statistical procedures for a group of academics, a group of students, and between both groups in each country, as well as across a multinational set. They point to differences and the consensus in perceiving the importance of digital components that can be used for the targeted further education of academics, setting up a system for the evaluation of studies, and for innovation in the university digital environment.

The paper presents results of the quantitative research on the level of reading strategies of fifteen years old pupils from Kyiv and Chernihiv region and their comparison with the results of Czech pupils of the same age (Vicherková, 2018). The research sample consisted of 121 subjects. The research data were obtained through the structured questionnaire. The main conclusion of the research is that Ukrainian pupils consider themselves reading literate. However, the fact contradicts the actual level of their reading strategies. The questionnaire items categorisation delimited the main factors influencing the fifteen years old Ukrainian pupils' level of reading strategies as well as the reading strategies level of the fifteen years old Czech pupils.

Children learn from their environment according to what they see around them. If they get the positive input, they will behave positively, but if they get the negative input, consequently they will imitate the negative behavior. Therefore, choosing the right media such as TV program and reading materials for children needs many considerations, because of their characteristics in learning. One of the suggested reading materials for the children is children stories. This research is aimed to observe and investigate the role of stories for the children in shaping the children behavior and internalizing the moral values. This is a salient thing to introduce the children stories including the traditional stories for the children due to its content of moral messages and education in such stories. The observational learning or social learning theory from Bandura is used to undermine the multi aspects of moral education that are found in the children stories. It is because Bandura theory figures out the process of modeling and imitation from one to another using the observational process. While the traditional children stories will be taken from some stories from the two different countries, between Madura traditional stories from Indonesia and Czech traditional stories. The choice of two different countries is expected to represent three different cultural perspectives, mainly Asia and or Eastern and Western cultural perspective. The stories that are chosen are the 3 popular traditional stories from Czech written by the most outstanding Bohemian woman writer, Bozena Nemcova, and three traditional stories from Madura Island. All of these children stories are very popular for their own community. Thus, the ethnography approach is also needed to do the research. The understanding of the different cultural backgrounds among the stories from three different countries is very important to get the better comprehending in the stories, especially the relationship among the stories and children behavior and moral perspectives.

The aim of this article is to think about key issues of readers' comprehension literacy of a specific category of research sample readers (15-24 years old). To what extent is the information of both international researches implemented into reality and chosen curriculum. In the first part of the article is introduced the basic terminology (literacy, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development [OECD], functional literacy, and reader's literacy). It is essential to understand that it is not just about literacy skills, i.e., being able to read texts and understand them, but also the skills to find, process, and compare the information contained in the text, and reproduce text content. In the second part the article thinks about and compares selected key data from international Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) and Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) research for specific category of research sample (15-24 years old readers). It is also worth considering whether the teaching community and the general public are aware of the need for specific measurements and the international comparison of literacy, in which the Czech Republic participates.

Students in the Czech Republic are increasingly interested in secondary school studies with a universal technical focus providing job security and a swift path to retraining according to existing labour market requirements. The aim of the paper is to find out how Czech students of secondary technical schools evaluate their professional development in the course of their secondary school studies. Qualitatively oriented research is focused on the quality of development of the secondary school studies as regarded by the secondary technical school students in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. The research outputs provide suggestions for students to improve their professional development throughout the secondary school studies, as well as suggestions for procedures that may help remove the occurrence of barriers in their educational paths to a technically oriented profession. A partial output of the research questionnaire survey is to describe, characterise and evaluate the idea of secondary technical schools’ students about their future profession and the level of their motivation to study at Czech technical secondary schools. Students consider the low number of teaching hours per week for teaching new modern technologies and computer-controlled machines to be a critical external barrier in their professional development. They admit low motivation to learn a large amount of theoretical information, without linking theory with practice. Practical work in workshops belongs among popular subjects.