Образование – демография или демография – образование
Education - demography or demography – education

Author(s): Borislav Borissov, Marusya Lyubcheva
Subject(s): Economy, National Economy
Published by: Международно висше бизнес училище
Keywords: education; demographics; crisis
Summary/Abstract: Scientists, politicians and media call the demographic situation in our country a problem, a crisis and even a catastrophe. The statistics paint a bleak picture and an even worse outlook. But despite this, demographic problems have not been brought up as a priority of the responsible national institutions, as it was done with the full entry of our country into the Schengen area or the Eurozone. There are no noticeable results from the piecemeal measures to improve the demographic picture, and the reason for this is that the mutual dependence between demography and other social systems, the most important of which is educational, is not understood. The report argues that one must look beyond statistics to uncover the real causes of the demographic collapse and highlights the interdependence between education and demographics. The results of an empirical study conducted among students from different schools and cities are presented, including in a secondary general education school, a profiled mathematical high school, a profiled language high school and a vocational school, with the aim of studying the subjective attitudes of young people about their own development, their opinions about the existing demographic situation and their tendency to seek realization abroad.

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