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Last week, during the national campaign "Economy in Light for a Better Future", organized by the Confederation of Employers and Industrialists in Bulgaria (CEIB) and the Confederation of Bulgarian Trade Unions, Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov announced that "in the 2016 Budget, hundreds of millions more will be allocated for secondary education". Here we will look at the macro environment in which ...

Today is September 15th – the day when all students head to their favorite school. Or at least that’s how the authors of the native reading books try to present the situation. Unfortunately, however, the situation is far from being so rosy. Quite the opposite. The situation of Bulgarian education is so critical that with each passing year, in …

As the great economist Frederic Bastiat said, in economics, some effects are visible and others remain invisible; the more positive the results seemingly observed from a public policy, the more severe the effects that seem to be invisible to the naked eye. This is certainly true in the field of education, which, …

Eight years ago, Coca-Cola set a goal to return all of the water it uses in its products to nature by 2020. On August 24, 2015, the company announced that it had achieved its goal five years ahead of schedule. Unlike the environmental dramas we are bombarded with daily – resources are …

Josh Grossman Last week, former U.S. Senator and Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander wrote in the Wall Street Journal that college degrees are both cheap and an excellent investment. He repeated the usual argument about how a degree increases the holder’s income by a million dollars “on average.” It is the use of …

Recently, the media reported that "the cabinet is analyzing the possibility of introducing a system for buying back plastic bottles in Bulgaria." This is practically the same as with beer bottles - we pay about 0.20 leva more for each plastic bottle and get our money back, but only if we return it. It wouldn't be...

Exchange of experience, evaluation, socialization Like any other initiative in the free market, the methodology of private and home education does not lend itself to strict mathematical analysis. Different schools and families may use different ways to educate children, and the differences may be due to many reasons - from family and ...

David Shellenberger Today I added a video introduction to my site. Thanks to James Nicoloro for the wonderful job of producing it. I wrote about it in “The First National Mark Twain Conference.” Almost 3 years ago, I wrote in my article “Libertarianism: The Political Philosophy of Compassion”: “Libertarianism is the political philosophy of compassion. It …

Bozhidar Marinov The Market The difficulties for such an initiative, of course, will come primarily from the lack of funding. While the state education system can always rely on state funding from the budget at the expense of taxpayers, private programs will have to find alternative opportunities to establish themselves in the market and make a difference. …

Recently, President Rosen Plevneliev put forward the idea of a referendum to change the electoral rules. Of the three proposed questions, one deserves special attention – do we want compulsory voting to be introduced? The first point to note is that such a question is of a very general nature and citizens do not really know …