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Yuri Ivanov* Over time, we may have forgotten it, but it is an obvious truth that in socialist Bulgaria people had the right to travel wherever they wanted... as long as they did not cross the external and internal borders outlined by the party. They also had the right to do whatever they wanted with their dreams... as long as they did not...

The Bulgarian Ministry of Education has one important (at least according to it) administrative function – the preparation and enforcement of annual curricula and programs, according to which schools in the country must organize the teaching process. This system of “regulation of the educational process” should be more related to the general study of state …

Initially, the case did not arouse much interest. No more than any other similar story. Interest in the case came after Lyuba Kulezich's interview with Nelly Varbanova and the widespread opinion of lawyer Milen Shopov, advisor to Minister Bakalov. What is impressive? Lyuba Kulezich's material was more than manipulative. More than …

Mark Thornton Most thoughtful parents today rarely allow their children to be left unattended, especially in public. Parental care begins with a wireless baby monitor in the child's crib and then continues with a constant connection by cell phone until the child graduates from high school. This is what makes the reports …

Martin Tarpev Education in Bulgaria has never been commercialized - and has been disgraced. From the mouths of politicians we hear and in their programs we read that one of Bulgaria's fundamental problems was commercialization, and specifically the commercialization of education. To realize the anti-logic in this statement, it is enough to simply...

Yesterday, in a successful PR move, the headquarters of the Reformist Bloc managed to include in Radan Kanev's live interview with Kapital newspaper hip hop artist Itso Hazarta - making the conversation significantly more interesting and more watchable. The Upsurt rapper himself insisted in front of the camera that he wanted to support "Radan, the people around him" because of ...

Can we talk about inequality when we compare the free choices of different individuals regarding what education to get or what job to start? In a competitive market, we cannot expect everyone to earn the same, and very often people confuse the difference in wages with discrimination or inability to …

*We present to you a study by EKIP between the regulation of the education systems in our country and in the UK. A suitable topic when we think about changes we want to see in Bulgaria or mistakes we do not want to repeat. As in Bulgaria, the education system of England is dominated by state educational institutions for …

Today we honor the victims of totalitarianism, especially two of its most horrific manifestations – Nazism and Communism, which led to the deaths of millions and the destruction of human well-being for decades. On this occasion, we have published some statistics from “The Black Book of Communism”, a volume by Harvard University Press, in which …

A year ago, I dedicated an entire study to the various quantitative and qualitative criteria for evaluating secondary education, and the most interesting data and conclusions came from the international representative surveys - PISA, TALIS and PIRSL. The reason for this is mainly the fact that they allow us to compare the product of our educational system with that of ...