The activation of forms of higher education and the competence of a university teacher

The article is based on long-term knowledge and partial researches of the authors focused on reflection of students and teachers and on various teaching methods used for activation of university students mostly in the fields of study focused on management and personnel management. The aim of the paper is to reflect the competences of the university teacher necessary for the realization of various forms of teaching, their comparison with students' opinions and attitudes and to reflect on changes in attitudes to teaching lectures, seminars and exercises so as .Using a questionnaire survey and controlled interviews at the Faculty of Education, Charles University, School Management Centre (since 2018 Department of Andragogy and Education Management), a sample of 325 students in combined study. data were continuously collected in 2015?2018, Masaryk Institute of Advanced Studies, CTU in Prague, 350 full-time students. Nowadays it is necessary with the generation change of students, with informatisation and digitization, the influence of society 4.0 to change the way of teaching to suit the attitudes and thinking of the current generation of students and to enable the transfer of knowledge and skills and their fixation. The main approaches are the activation method of teaching, linked to the group, respectively. teamwork. The relevance of the findings is tied to the study of differentiation between full-time and full-time students in relation to the age cohort.