For some time now there have been protests among scholars and students at public universities in the Czech Republic. The protesters aim to force the Minister of Education, Pavel Dobeš, to stop his proposal for new university legislation even before it could be debated in government. That means, right at its very beginning. The proposal is considered to be chaotic, of no benefit to the sector, and even harmful and worthless by representatives of the Czech public universities and their students. In the Czech Republic, public universities constitute the core of the education system. There are 78 graduate schools of different types, but only very few are taken seriously, probably about 5 to 10, depending on strictness, and all of