Krasimir Valchev | © Council of the EUThe European Commission wants to make a revolution in European education and to create, probably, the greatest integrational epicentre in the EU but the member states are for now inclined only to put another brick in the wall. Moreover, the eurosceptic Visegrad suburb of the EU is very likely to ...
| © EUThe usage of the term "smart growth" is so huge that it hardly crosses someone's mind what it actually means. Smart growth as an inherent part of the European institutions' rhetoric, especially in the context of the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) and the Europe 2020 strategy (all long-ter ...
| © euinsideeuinside was media partner in Bulgaria to the "My Europe" initiative of ICCA (Institute for Corporate Culture Affairs) and the Frankfurter Zukunftsrat (Future Think Tank) Through a series of workshops with young people in 29 European countries, under the patronage of Ms Viviane Reding, Vice Pres ...
| © hm-treasury.gov.ukThe first comments by politicians and media on UK 2012 budget were that it was a budget for millionaires and penalised pensioners and families with children. But as Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne said in his speech to Parliament, the budget "unashamedly backs business. And it is on t ...
In euinside we have commented before, on the occasion of Iceland for instance, that the more severe nature is in a country, the less goods people can get with no efforts, the more this mobilises society to develop its potential at the maximum. The same can be said for Finland, which might not ha ...
| © number10.gov.ukIt is not the first time when we openly admire British Prime Minister David Cameron. Not because we just admire everything that comes from abroad or we are tempted by lustrous political speech. It is because David Cameron is about to implement historic reforms in Britain, moreover with a clear v ...
| © Crown"Budget butchery" - this is how The Economist called the austerity measures of the British government. The purpose of the "butchery" is to reduce the huge public debt of the country, that has been piled up during the 13 years of Labour rule. In general, the cuts have been accepted with understan ...
| © Audiovisual ServiceAgainst the backdrop of the deepening differences in the economic growth of EU member states, it is now being realised that a major element not only in economic recovery but also in development is education. This is clearly seen in the fact that the Council of EU finance ministers (Ecofin) delib ...
| © HM TreasuryDo you have an idea which is the second largest item in Britain's budget? And the first? And do you know which are the first two in the Bulgarian budget? On Wednesday while I was listening to the spending review the British Chancellor of the Exchequer was making before the British parliament, I ...
| © euinsideWhat can be worse than a heavy financial and economic crisis? The long-term one. And what can be the reasons for it? No matter how tempted you might feel to enumerate a lot of reasons, it is actually only one - bad education. The intoxicating incompetence, and sometimes illiteracy at the highest ...
This is what the deputy prime minister and minister of finance Simeon Dyankov explained after the session of the Bulgarian Council of Ministers. He reassured, supported by the prime minister Boyko Borisov, that the mistake will be corrected during the first and second reading of the Budget 2010 ...
There is a growing resistance against the decision of the Ministry of Finance to drop the financial aid for student mothers in Bulgaria as well as to reduce the financial aid for twins. The decision has been announced by the deputy minister for labour and social policy Hristina Mitreva. At prese ...
| © Eva Manasieva, Austria"The priorities in Budget 2010 are the social policy, education, healthcare, environment, road infrastructure, internal affairs and security". This is what the press release of the Ministry of Finance (MF) says. And in case doubt the statement, here is the evidence the MF presents: "Public expen ...
| © Adelina Marini | www.euinside.euThe new team at the Ministry of education, science and youth is still analyzing the results of the matriculations at the end of high school stage because it is still waiting for the results from the corrections that will take place in the end of the month. This analysis is supposed to show who i ...
The new School Legislation, proposed a few months ago by the minister of education Daniel Valchev (from NDSV - National Movement for Stability and Progress, led by Simeon Saxecobourggotta) doesn't contain one very basic element and that is - the unified state educational requirements. For this r ...
| © euinsideThe expression of personal thoughts and analysis again appears to be a problem for the children that finish school. This is shown by the results of the matriculations that were held for a second consecutive year with main purpose - to make an outside and independent analysis of what's taught at ...
Boosting the model of school financing, further development of the system for outside estimation (matriculations), smoothing away the differences in the quality of teaching, respectively - of succeeding of children, better social status for those who have finished professional education, efforts ...
| © euinsideMaybe this would sound a little bit exaggerated but I'm absolutely convinced that if the process for high school exams application was simple and logical, this country wouldn't have had any problems with its development. Why? Because a second day in a row I'm trying to learn the truth about what ...
Probably only parents whose children have already passed from 7th class to 8th can understand those whose children are to go through the process this summer. Because the crash with the conservative and very underdeveloped education system is frontal with severe consequences for the mental health ...
As expected the idea the results from the matriculations after primary school grade to be used instead of an application test for high school (the newest idea, in fact), appeared after the big protests of pupils and parents because the children would be very overloaded. I do not intend to discus ...
The struggle for higher wages is in fact individual thinking. It is natural - everyone wants to live better. But is it only the wage that solves all our personal problems? I think - No! If we stop only for a second to think individually and look more globally, we will see then that there are muc ...
