The UNYP Chronicle

The University of New York in Prague (UNYP), has won the Czech Superbrands award for the third year in a row. “Three years recognized for excellence in our marketing as well as our reputation is a great honor.  This is possible because our staff and our students strive for excellence at every opportunity,” commended Mark […]

Donald Trump’s rise to power gave us a preview of what’s to come in 2018. A lot of people are still pinching themselves in the hope that 2017 was just a bad dream. 2017 was the “D” year – characterized by words like disruption, disturbance, destruction, depression, deception, defiance, discontent, despair and death. More generally, […]

As cultural interfaces, universities are hubs for business, academia and language, and as such are linguistic nurseries. Individual disciplines generate a huge range of dense jargon, neologisms and quirky language use. Out of this comes one of the perennial conundrums of the Composition teacher: whether, as gatekeepers, we should enforce grammar standards which are orthodox […]

The University of New York in Prague (UNYP) is proud to welcome a new senior executive to its team, Ing. Eva Anderová, Mrs. Anderová will serve as the University’s Vice President for Public Affairs.  She will be tasked with leading initiatives to bring attention to matters of higher-education and private higher-education to the media and […]

We’ve all been there – the captive audience of a presenter who shows a long Powerpoint presentation, reads from hundreds of slides and at the end hauls out the classic phrase “I hope you don’t feel tired…!” This is invariably the same presenter who started the presentation with the dread words “I will try to […]

A platform to discuss current issues, a place to find friends for life, the perfect environment to develop yourself and to prepare for your future job and all kinds of life situations – these are just a few ways to describe the European Youth Parliament (EYP). EYP is hard to describe in a single phrase or sentence, […]

A quiet, eager man known as Professor Bowman once told me — a fidgety sophomore petrified by my fear of failure or humiliation – that I should always “Say ‘yes’ first, and think about it later”. He said this was the way to face new opportunities about which I was unsure or potentially underqualified to […]

If you are the founder of a successful company, you are likely to have built up power and control in your company for over 20 years, with everyone around you relying on your decisions. For an entrepreneur, having power means having a sense of control, choice and the ability to influence, and it is a […]

How often have you found that you have 28 hours worth of tasks to accomplish in a day, but only the standard 24 hours available?  Do you sometimes wish there were two of you?  Do you sometimes find yourself “short-changing” your tasks, putting in only minimal effort just to get them done, even though you […]

While traveling to work these days on the metro in Prague, I observe rows of heads slightly tilted downward, gazing at mobile devices. The information emanating from these machines includes valuable real-time information, entertainment and erroneous tales that have been culled from existing data to satisfy some entity’s agenda. So-called “fake news” has become a […]