education

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, …

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 …

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 ...

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. …

If someone had told me in 2000 that just 15 years later the Bulgarian parliament would pass a law that, albeit in an imperfect and unclear and unfinished form, would legalize and recognize homeschooling, I would have laughed at them. Well, come on, not to laugh, but at least to smile...

International organizations, such as the UN, the EU, the World Bank, and the IMF, often emphasize how important education is for economic growth. This is a thesis with which I generally agree. Education is important and it is good for people to be educated. The logic of the prominent organizations, as well as the various private individuals who also …

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 …

*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 …