Teaching Database Systems and Technologies in Economy and Managerial Study Fields

The paper presents a part of the results of a research, which goal was to analyse current state and perspectives of informatics education on the tertiary level of education in selected economy and managerial study fields. Purpose of the research was to support curricula modernization and innovation in the relevant study programmes and to bring the content of this study closer to the current demands and needs of practice and labour market as to the knowledge and skills of the graduates. An original feature of the research has been the fact that it was based on students' points of view. Necessary research data were collected through a questionnaire survey which respondents were students of the concerned study programmes in the Slovak and Czech Republic. Most of the questionnaire items was focused on finding out how the students of the economy and managerial study programmes evaluate informatics education incorporated in their pre-graduate education (its curricula and to them related teaching processes) from the point of view of its relevance and importance to their study and career profilization. In the paper there are presented findings regarding the issues of teaching database systems and technologies within informatics education incorporated into the concerned economy and managerial study programmes taking into consideration these students' study and career profilization.