For the next four years, a woman could again be at the head of the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences of the University of South Bohemia (where almost 2,100 students are educated). On November 21, 2018, the members of the Academic Senate of the Faculty elected Mgr. Ivana Chloubová, Ph.D. to the post of the Dean for the term of office from February 2, 2019 to January 31, 2023. She had no rival candidates in the election and won 13 votes of the total 13 submitted. If the Rector Tomáš Machula appoints her, 48–year-old Ivana Chloubová will take the place of the present Dean prof. PhD Valérie Tóthová, Ph.D., who led the Faculty for eight years (this represents two terms of office, the longest possible term for a Dean) at the beginning of February 2019.
Ivana Chloubová has been the Vice-Dean for Study and Social Affairs of the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences of the University of South Bohemia for eight years, so she knows the environment very well. If she becomes the Dean, she wants to maintain and further develop the present direction of the Faculty. She likes the prospective combination of health, social and security branches that this school offers the students. In her opinion, combining interconnection theory with practical training is very worthwhile, and also relates to a great supply of graduates into the labour market. She stressed:“We can be proud of preparing qualified professionals. The evidence of this is the much higher demand for our graduates; some employers really want only the graduates of our Faculty.”
After the school-leaving exam at Secondary Nursing School, Ivana Chloubová was admitted to the Neurological Department of the Hospitalin České Budějovice, where she worked as a nurse. She did a part-time course in Education – Nursing at the Facuty of Arts of Charles University in Prague. Then she started to teach professional subjects at the Secondary Nursing School and Higher NursingSchool in České Budějovice. Since 2004 she has been working at the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences of the University of South Bohemia.
