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Organisational mattersVenueThe course will be held at Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Education, M. D. Rettigove Street, no. 4, on 6th January, 2008 - 13th January, 2008 For more information about the venue of the course see the following websites.
How to get to your accommodation:A: Hotel Carolinum, 14 Celetná Street (tel. +420 224491259) If you come by plane, take bus 119 from outside the airport to its final stop Dejvická. (Public transport tickets are available for purchase in the airport and can be used on buses, trams and metro. Tickets cost 20 K? and are valid for 75 minutes on weekdays and 90 minutes on Sunday. You can change forms of transport within the time allowed. Remember to time punch your ticket at the start of your journey.)
B. Student residence, 3 Petrská (tel: +420 222315189)
The registration will begin at 2pm (14:00) on Sunday, 6th January 2008 on the ground floor of the Pedagogická Fakulta, (Faculty of Education), M. D. Rettigové 4. This is within 15 min walking from hotel Carolinum, 20 min from Petrská. From Petrská you can also go by tram 3 or 24 from the stop ‘Bílá Labut' ( 200 m from Petrská) and travel FIVE stops to stop ‘Lazarská'. The opening session will start at 3.30pm in the Faculty. If you want to use a taxi, we recommend the service AAA radiotaxi s.r.o. which is a 24 hour service speaking English, tel. 14014 or 33113311. Public transport tickets will be provided to participants to cover their travel needs relating to the course.Preliminary Programme (subject to change depending on number of participants)The programme begins officially with the opening session on 6th January 2008 at 3.30 pm in the Faculty of Education. A detailed programme for the course will be given to participants at registration. The course ends on Sunday, 13th January at lunchtime. During the course there will be 30 hours of teaching time shared across the three modules. There will be 24 hours of contact time in this total, some tutorial time and some individual working time. The balance of the time given to the three modules and the group sizes will depend on the numbers of participants. Saturday morning, 20th January will be free and on that afternoon there will be a guided tour around Prague for participants. There will also be cultural events during the week and a visit to a primary school. Each participant is expected to describe their national educational system and/or their school assessment system or local application of the national system, to the rest of the participants. It would be helpful if you could prepare some form of display, which would help your contribution and clarify the system for the other members. Fees and accommodationAll meal costs from dinner on Sunday 6th January to lunchtime on Sunday 13th are included in the lunch and dinner package. Should you wish to have extra nights at either end of the course or both please inform Darina Jirotková immediately (e-mail: darina.jirotkova@pedf.cuni.cz). Similarly should you wish your spouse/ friend to accompany you and wish to have accommodation for them let Darina Jirotková know immediately. Extra nights will cost 60 euros per night per person at Hotel Carolinum (unless sharing a room) and 20 euros per night at Petrská.
The course fee for everyone will be 550 euros and this includes tuition, course handbook, all material, handouts necessary for the course, mid morning/afternoon refreshments, social events etc.
The lunch and dinner package for each day will cost 100 euros in total for the week. The venues for the meals being highly recommended restaurants.
We provide four accommodation choices based on two hotels Carolinum (A) and Petrska (B). Choices A* and B* include all lunches and dinners for seven days. Choices A and B do not include the lunch/dinner package.
· Choice A*: Hotel Carolinum, the University hotel providing superior hotel accommodation close to the Old Town Square. Cost per night per person - 60 euros, all meals 100 euros for the week giving a total cost of 1070 euros (550 + 100 + 420).
· Choice A: As above but without the lunch/dinner package. Total costs 970 euros (550 + 420).
· Choice B*: Good accommodation in student residence Petrska. Cost per night per person 20 euros, lunch/dinner package 100 euros for the week giving a total cost of 790 euros (550 + 100 + 140).
· Choice B: as for B* but without the lunch/dinner package. Total cost 690 euros (550 + 140).
· Option C: You wish to find your own accommodation and meals in Prague. The organisers of the course can in no way be held responsible for the quality or situation of any such accommodation. The total cost would be the course fee 550 euros.
As indicated earlier extra nights may be booked at either end of the course, these would cost 60 euros per night for single occupancy at Carolinum and 20 euros per night at Petrska.
Should you wish to bring a friend/spouse or share accommodation then shared rooms at Carolinum will cost 40 euros per person per night and 20 euros per person per night at Petrska.
PLEASE LET DARINA JIROTOVA KNOW AS SOON AS POSSIBLE IF YOU NEED EXTRA NIGHTS OR ARE BRINGING A FRIEND.
A proforma will be sent to all those who get funding from their Socrates agency to ask which of the above options they would wish to choose. Please let us know the outcome of your application for a grant as soon as you are informed. This information is important to us for our planning. Please note: the total course fees should be sent by bank transfer, with the sender accepting all bank charges, as directed on the application form, not later than 6th December 2007 .
Please mark the transfer as coming from ‘Your name' followed by the word ‘EMTISM'. If you have difficulties arranging a bank transfer you may bring the total course fees as cash but this must be in Czech crowns. The amount in Czech crowns will be set up two days before the course starts according to the current exchange rate..
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