Abstract:

The article focuses on higher education of social workers in the Czech Republic at the time of extraordinary measures ordered by the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic to protect the population against COVID-19. At the time of COVID-19, contact between people around the world was limited. Due to these extraordinary circumstances, the teaching of social work has moved to the online space. Social work students were ordered to do so by the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, which affected their university studies. Social work students performed work duties in providing social services in residential, outpatient and field form.The paper will present a quantitative research survey focused on the education of social work students in the period from March 2020 to June 2020. The aim of the paper is to evaluate the harmonization of work duties of students and university studies in social work in the Czech Republic. This article focuses primarily on the management of students' work duties ordered by the Government of the Czech Republic and the requirements for their university studies. The article will present the students 'view of teachers' approach to their assigned work duties.

Keywords:

Duty to work, Social work, Distance education, COVID-19.