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The Ambivalent Role of the Private Sector in Slovak Higher Education
In a country with an old university tradition, the quality of higher education offered by publicuniversities has been gradually eroding. Private universities do not offer high quality education either.Despite under financing there is resistance to general tuition fees. Private companies remain thepreferred employer among graduates.
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Economic success at Europe’s expense?
“Millions of rapacious Germans are coming every year as tourists and eating us out of house and home, tearing up our first class roads, taking shameless advantage of our cheap services, fantastic food and boundless hospitality. … And rapacious Germans forced people to invest their capital in German industry. Germany thrives […]
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Slovakia: Bratislava, city border in spring
As part of our coverage on “The New City” we asked our bloggers for some pictures from their cities. Are there any places in their cities that are prime examples for sustainable urban living? But it could also be a negative example in order to show how a city should not […]
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Water Governance in Slovakia
First and foremost, what solving water governance issues requires is a proper feeling for scale. As the example of Slovakia, a country particularly rich in water resources, shows, solutions that are too grand or too local can be equally costly and result in failure. Small country, big differences Záhorie (“the […]