GAUDEAMUS® 2009, The 2nd ANNUAL

The 2nd year of the Gaudeamus exhibition was held at the Krizik exhibition hall of the showground in Prague. This is a spacious hall with ground floor surface come up to 2 000 m2. The hall was filled up to capacity with visitors. The most favourite place was the lecture hall.

The exhibition hall was equipped with the lecture hall with capacity 110 seats and other 50 standing places. The lecture hall was equipped with good quality audio system, own presenter and technical support. Lecture hall and surrounding area were the most frequented sites at the exhibition.

The standard of lectures has changed considerably compared to the last year. The speakers made their lecturers much more comprehensible. Many lecturers were actually held by the university or college’s own students. The main aim of every lecture was to attract attention of future students and inform them about schools, study opportunities etc.

Students are mostly interested in social science, management and languages. They prefer a Bachelor's degree with possible follow-up Master's degree. The biggest influences on their decision are personal predispositions, job status and salary.

Specialization of the exhibition was:

• The tertiary education at Czech universities, colleges, higher schools and other educational institutions.
• Study abroad there were foreign educational institutions, universities, colleges and higher schools aiming to promote their educational programmes and recruit Czech students.
• Lifelong Learning offered a wide range of business, technology, language, computer and communication studies, all kinds of daily or evening studies.

Exhibitors could not complain about a lack of interest in their study programmes and information about their schools. Students were more interested in advisory service comparing to the 1st edition of exhibition. The advisory service provided information about fields of study, study programmes, contacts of exhibitors and other useful information about future studies.