higher education

Recently, a professor from Maastricht University presented a report in which he recommended that the number of higher education institutions in Bulgaria be reduced to 10, because “this was the European practice.” The argument is that until this reform is carried out, any increase in funding for science will not achieve the desired result, and that only through such …

On October 2, 1921, the first academic year was opened at the Higher School of Commerce in Varna. Later renamed the "Economics University - Varna", this was the first higher school of economics in Bulgaria, marking the beginning of specialized higher business education in the country. The initiative for its establishment was taken by the Varna …

American university campuses have been turned into battlefields – masked men chase inconvenient lecturers with batons, far-left students boycott the “patriarchy”, administrations ban “offensive to minorities” Halloween costumes of Indian warriors and Mexican musicians. The property of youth conservative groups is being destroyed, radical professors incite students to attack their colleagues, and …

The case of "priority" majors About a month ago, the Ministry of Education and Science announced a reform in the financing of student scholarships with European funds under the operational program "Science and Education for Smart Growth". According to this reform, from now on, student majors are divided into "priority" and "non-priority" and only students following ...

Yesterday, Offnews published an article written by Ivaylo Dinev, in which he criticized the restriction of the right of students from certain specialties to apply for European scholarships in the amount of 600 leva. Although the topic is extremely banal and insignificant against the background of other problems in education, the sophism that flowed from …

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...

While reading material about the upcoming debates on the topic of the “modernization” of higher education in Bulgaria, I came across a text that can clearly illustrate the essence of the problem[1]. At the end of the cited article, there are several questions asked that I would like to pay attention to, adding a few small corrections (on my behalf in italics …

Roger Martin reached out his hand to the cloudy Canadian sky on October 17, 2012. A few raindrops wet his palm as he stood with his back to the University of Toronto main building, where he had just left. He turned his head for a moment and surveyed the ancient buildings. Most of them dated from the period …

It's mid-January and the results of the university rankings are already out. While prospective students and their parents wait for the overloaded server to load where it would be best to enroll in the fall (in case they stay in Bulgaria), here we will offer them an alternative view of the ranking itself – how much …