this profile builds on the knowledge and expertise of many project teams across the oecd s directorate for education and skills to whom we are grateful hyperlinks to the reference publications are included throughout the text for ease of reading and also in the references and further reading section which lists both oecd and nonoecd sources the czech republic has made progress on reducing the impact of socioeconomic background on students academic performance reaching high enrolment in early childhood education and care and achieving higher than average upper secondary attainment rates especially in vocational education and training