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    Richard Descoings, the former Director of France’s prestigious Sciences Po found dead in his New York hotel room April 2nd, left few indifferent in his decades-long crusade to reform French education. He was the driver behind the “modernization” of an archaic admissions system, leading to a far bigger, […]

Bulgarian universities are failing to respond to the needs of companies which means that graduates are unequipped to deal with the rigors of an already tight labor market.

Around 73 percent of employers said that university graduates do not possess the right kind of skills for work and a similar view  was held by 62 percent of employers about vocational training graduates. These figures are the striking results of a survey conducted among employers in 2011 by a private consulting […]

One of the arguments in the Learning Our Lesson article is that private institutions do not take responsibility for the welfare of society although they are a part of it. All blame and responsibility is directed at ‘governments’ while private institutions are soaking up money and contributing a bare minimum to society in return. I would like to […]

    Abstract: For the past three months a teachers’ strike has been taking place in Brazil. The movement has spread and reached 57 of the 59 federal universities.  According to the media, the reason for the strike has been a problem with teachers’ salaries: the government has established a […]