"Žofie je studentkou na vysoké škole v Praze."
Translation:Žofie is a student at a university in Prague.
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I was told instrumental is often use in place of nominative when you mean that the qualification is permanent, or for jobs (she is a teacher : je učitelkou). It may be more bookish with instrumental, also.
I would not explain it this way. You most often use the nominative for some equivalence and the instrumental when A acts / functions as B.
I don't know about the States, but in the UK this could mean "Žofie is a student at university in Prague". No "a" necessarily, in fact I would think more often than not omitted. Even if there is more than one of them.
Yes, as I understand it, "at university" works just fine in BrE, though it would be unusual in AmE. That may also already be accepted.
Thanks. I believe the standard US expression is "at college" rather than "at university" but I could be wrong there. NB "at university" is frequently abbreviated to "at uni" in the UK but I certainly would not expect Duolingo to accept that!
Yes, "at college" would be much more common the US than "at university." I don't know about the relative "commonness" of, using the exercise example, "X is a student at college in Prague" vs. "X is a student at A college in Prague."
If "at uni" is considered to be just as "normal" as "at university" in BrE, perhaps it can be added if it's not already there.
This is a good example of a case that requires the indefinite article - she goes not to any old university, but one in Prague (though indefinite because we don't know which one).
In the Czech Republic, can an establishment called "vysoká škola" also be called "univerzita", or is there a difference?
Actually, it is not "an university," it is "a university," as shown above. Although the word starts with a vowel, that vowel sounds like "yu" here and it requires "a" before the word.