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Green balloons

For years, economists have been warning that the model of supporting renewable energy sources is ineffective. Subsidies have a high opportunity cost and an energy bubble is inflating. Industry and households are paying more for electricity. Data for Spain and Germany show that the criticism is justified and the green fairy tale is coming to an end. And where …

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Guest article: Private school education – only for the rich, or not?

More and more people are realizing the ineffectiveness of the education offered by public schools. The most obvious sign of this is the growing number of young people who pay for private lessons.1 Both students and their parents see that it is impossible to obtain quality training in a given subject through school activities alone. The desire of the rulers …

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Private school education – only for the rich, or not?

More and more people are realizing the ineffectiveness of the education offered by public schools. The most obvious sign of this is the growing number of young people who pay for private lessons.1 Both students and their parents see that it is impossible to obtain quality training in a given subject through school activities alone. The desire of the rulers …

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What can we learn from South Korea's education system?

It is often discussed how Bulgaria (as well as other countries from the former socialist bloc) should adopt Western culture and production methods. Unfortunately, the West, having quickly forgotten its lessons from the socialism of the last century, has with a cheerful and naive leap set off on the path to the same system that it spat out so much...

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