Without any doubt, this was decisive for the further imposition of the Soviet model in Czechoslovak military education. The most important change was the division of the Military Academy in Hranice into ten academies on the basis of types of weapons and services, which came into effect on 1 October 1950. Their general approach to education brought to a definitive end the last elements of continuity with the traditional system for educating the Czechoslovak officer corps. Czech tertiary level military institutions Since the Czech Republic came into existence on 1 January 1993, the higher educational system of the Czech armed forces has comprised three tertiary institutions, which promote and develop military subjects and military specializations within various disciplines and offer a tertiary-level education in these fields. Some of the programmes of study at these institutions are open to civilian students.
Graduates can find employment in the Czech armed forces as well as in civilian professions.
The Military Academy in Brno is responsible for the preparation of career members of the armed forces, specialists to meet the needs of the ground forces and airforce and armed forces logistics. It also prepares technical experts and workers in the field of ensuring the defensive capability of the country and crisis management. The Military College of the Ground Forces at Vy kov is an important institution for the training and education of officers for command positions in the ground forces, specialists in the field of logistics and other experts needed by the Czech armed forces. The J. E. Purkyn Military Medical Academy in Hradec Kr lov focuses its research and teaching on the modern education and training of doctors, pharmaceuticists and health-system managers for the armed forces of the Czech Republic. Depending on the field they have studied, graduates are awarded bachelor's, master's or Doctor of General Medicine degrees.