It has turned out to be a complex matter. Very often, former communists have adopted new thinking quickly, thoroughly and sincerely, while former dissidents have unwittingly clung to old thinking. For example, dissidents who found themselves elevated overnight into high management positions, without any management education, often applied undemocratic management strategies out of sheer ignorance of better ways. The Czech government has not given high priority to investment in the universities. University staff salaries have also slumped.
All universities are fully computerised.
The financial climate in most universities is not good, but neither is it catastrophic, as it is in many of the other former Soviet-bloc countries. The idea that autonomy and reliance on Czech integrity, intelligence, common sense and hard work would lead to rapid regeneration of the nation was always naive. It overlooked the problems of lack of a proper legal infrastructure, lack of management skills and human greed for power and money. University leaders have shown more integrity, intelligence, common sense and hard work than their counterparts in national politics and in the national economy. But they have been working with inadequate funding, and in an inadequate legal framework, exacerbated by the paralysis in national politics.